Hi Cara, On 30 Jan 2007 at 5:04, Guitar Babe spoke, thus:
> Also, can you run down the software I'd need to compile the windows > binaries? I haven't looked at them yet at all, so don't know what's > there... It's probably best to have Visual Studio, either version 6 or 7 (.NET), for Microsoft's optimising (not free - that's non-optimising and won't let you use static linking) Visual C++ compiler. I think you can still get by with Visual Studio 6 (at least, I can, from an accessibility point of view, although it's a right nuisance), but version 7.0 or 7.1 (.NET 2003) are preferable for actual development and testing and improved code optimisation. The executables that go into the packages definitely shouldn't absolutely require the latest compilers, though, so if it's just to have a shot at rebuilding the latest sources then VC6 ought to be more than enough (but I really don't know what the results are since I don't maintain copies of the old project files for VS6 - if you have any luck, let us know). Alternatively, using gcc is possible but (when I last checked) limited. You should be able to use cygwin or the mingw toolset to cross-compile to native Win32 (though there are some specific restrictions and the build system is updated rather infrequently). Cross- compiling from Linux should be possible too, but I don't know how good the results are. Once again, I'm not aware of the state of play and if you do somehow manage to build a current executable with gcc for Windows using either Windows cygwin/mingw or Linux, let us know. I haven't tried with any other compilers, but I imagine the adornment of MS-specific code will probably make it a bit hard to do (gcc on Linux and MSVC6 on Doze were the platforms iD used originally and probably still produce working results). Hope this is enough to get you going. Cheers, Sabahattin -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sound, QA, Misc. Development, AGRIP Project http://agrip.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ AGRIP-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agrip.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/agrip-discuss
