> Von: Pau Garcia i Quiles > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Christian Ehrlicher > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Von: Pau Garcia i Quiles > >> 2009/3/13 Zeke Conner > >> > When will there be binaries for MSVC 2008? 2005 is quite old eh? And > I > >> > already have 2008 installed and dun feel like going through the > hassle > >> of > >> > 2005 which I've already tried to before and it was just annoying. > >> > >> MSVC2005 and MSVC2008 are ABI-compatible, so you do not need special > >> binaries, as Christian said. > >> > >> However, if you want to build your own binaries for MSVC2008, it's > >> easy: you just need to set KDECOMPILER=msvc2008 in kdesettings.bat. > >> It's been there for at least six months. > >> > > The reason why I don't like this is that all win32libs (including boost, > poppler and others) are compiled with > > msvc2005sp1 and therefore will use a different msvcrt. This can lead to > problem which are hard to track for > > someone without knowledge. Therefore I strongly advise to *not* use > msvc2008 with emerge unless you > > know what you're doing... > > I agree but if someone if building its own binaries, I assume he knows > what he's doing :-) > > Ideally, the recently-started CMakePorts project ( > http://code.google.com/p/cmakeports/ ) will CMake-ify everything in > win32libs and we'll be able to build the whole KDE, including its > dependencies, without downloading any binary. > I don't know what I should think about this - imho it's much better to try to convince the maintainers to add cmake buildsystem (like I did for libarchive, libpng, pcre and maybe others)
> Actually, given that Boost, Poppler and others are available with a > CMake build-system, should we try building them from source instead of > downloading binaries from GnuWin32 and other places? > We do not download anything from gnuwin32 or somewhere else. All in win32libs is build by our own. The only reason why there's a win32libs-bin is that we don't want to build the whole stuff ever and ever again (especially since some packages only build on mingw, some need even msys, ...) Christian -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
