What about the precompiled binaries for 7.1, 8.0, 9.0 here? http://www.boostpro.com/download. Can't we simple just use these instead?
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Patrick Spendrin <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Pakulat schrieb: > > 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. > > > As long as you keep away from installing the old runtime (the redist > package from the installer), you should be save. The runtime libraries > are used from your compiler then. > If that would be not correct, you would have to recompile at least the > dbus and pcre packages (all C++ packages, there are more like libchm, > libmsn but those are not needed for kdevelop iirc). > >> 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 :) > np, just go ahead and use this weekends time :-D. > > > > Andreas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows >
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