2009/3/13 Christian Ehrlicher <[email protected]>: > Pau Garcia i Quiles schrieb: >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Christian Ehrlicher >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's not just the cmake buildsystem. It's also the ability to actually >>> compile the sources with msvc or even with >>> mingw without doing some extra magic (see shared-mime-info for example!) >> >> I've looked into >> emerge/portage/win32libs-sources/shared-mime-info-src/ but I fail to >> see the magic. What I see is a CMake build system which carefully >> checks for types, etc., which is good and I have to congratulate you >> for your nice work (really). Granted, it's not as easy as listing the >> source files and adding ADD_LIBRARY and TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES but if >> that's what's required, that's what's required. >> > So you want someone who wants to compile KDE to download and patch gtk > stuff just to compile an executable which works fine when compiled with > mingw and downloaded as binary? Nice... are you using LFS? This would at > least explain your point. > And you really shouldn't forget all the stuff which isn't compilable or > about the confusion when someone later tries to use libpng.dll compiled > with msvc with mingw compiled executable...
The point is minimizing dependencies. If I build KDE with MSVC2008, I'd like it not to depend on the MSVC2005 redist. > I can't tell you what you should do (nor do I want) but it would be far > much better trying to fix things inside KDE instead thinking about how > to compile something that already works. There are many things to fix and improve, inside and outside of KDE. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
