On 1 January 2015 at 22:08, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just a quick clarification. > > The externals folder in the source tree seems to be exclusively for > obtaining x86 libraries, DLLs, and include files. These are exclusively > for compiling native Windows x86 code, yes? > yes > > And is their only use as dependencies from the minizip and w3c-tidy-html5 > in DocFormats/platform/3rdparty ? > the zlib dll is. The rest is (as far as I know) used directly in the application code. I think iconv is only used to get W:H on images, needed for the rendering. > > Another question. The externals/README.txt file says that there are > external/download/bin DLLs that need to be copied to the directory > containing the compiled Corinthia binaries. > or somewhere included in PATH. I have my dll in a c:/cmd directory. > > Is there any need for the .exe files that are also extracted to > download/bin? Could they simply not be extracted? > We dont copy the exe files for the packages, only .lib, .h and .dll > > Is it necessary to keep the includes from libxml in > download/include/libxml/ instead of just download/include ? (This one's no > problem, I'm just curious.) > I think you need to rebuild your tree (cmake -G), seems as if you dont run with the latest VC solution. Download is only temporary, everything we need is copied to externals/lib /include /bin rgds jan I
