On 29.05.09 10:40:18, Patrick Spendrin wrote: > Andreas Pakulat schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > I've now setup a VMware to do some windows-development for KDevelop4 and > > as I understood from previous emails its a bit of work, but probably > > better to build with MSVC2008. > > > > Now the question arises: How to I prevent emerge from fetching binary > > packages? If I cannot do that, is there some docs how I create binary > > packages myself and lets emerge use them (apart from the source code)? > > And last but not least: Does anybody have a list of packages where > > emerge downloads the binary instead of compiling it? > Well, the point is that in most cases you don't even need to recompile > the binary packages - older libraries will be understood by the newer > compiler. The biggest problem is that the boost binary package doesn't > contain libraries for 2k8 compiler and thus needs to be recompiled. As far as I understand our windows experts here at work, mixing different runtime libraries inside the same application can be problematic - causing strange crashes etc.
I'd like to avoid hunting down crashes that are possibly caused by such mixing. > This should be about the only compiler related problem so far. > As this is about to change in the coming days (boost package will be > packaged), this how-to is really only temporary. Yeah, I just can't wait :) Andreas -- Someone is speaking well of you. How unusual! _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
