On Aug 31, 2013 5:40 PM, "Brian Sidebotham" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 31 August 2013 22:06, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > I just upgraded to openssl 1.0.1e, and am now building the DLL fine in a-mingw-us, >> > although I think this 'e' version had nothing to do with this. Seems the Configure script >> > is picky about sequence of arguments. >> > >> > >> > We now need to package the openssl DLL goodies so they can flow into a situation where >> > windows builders of GITHUB_PLUGIN can use those. >> > >> >> Come to think of it, I don't know how I am going to find the openssl headers on Windows >> for the GITHUB plugin. Certainly we cannot expect them to flow with a KiCad installation. >> >> Maybe we will simply need to reproduce the ExternalProject_Add() in the GITHUB plugin >> CMakeFile, conditioned on Windows. Gosh yes, what was I thinking? >> >> >> How you guys stay on Windows is beyond me. The package management concept has long been >> an established concept. But "add/remove programs" is a joke by comparison. >> >> >> Then, you have competing C++ compilers so the story would have be told in duplicate >> anyways. I don't expect MSVC to be around much longer, given that it does not generate >> revenue (not like the Android patent blackmailing is). And Android is showing up >> everywhere now, including wrist watches. I give MSVC about another 6 years max. >> >> >> How good can that be for your character, knowing that most of your revenue is coming from >> patent blackmail? Maybe Mr. B is retiring because of that. (Note I am assuming he has >> that much quality of character.) >> >> You hear that New Zealand just outlawed software patents? Call your representatives >> please. It will take a lot of voices to drown out the voice from Microsoft, which as I >> mentioned, now gets a lot of patent revenue from Android OEMs, who are not strong enough >> to fight back. > > > Yes, I thought about the header/dependency situation for SSL after your previous email. I understand your frustration, believe me! > > Perhaps Apple will stop suing people for making black boxes without their permission, or charging people for manufacturing a bluetooth device that is to connect to one of their devices too. But it'll never happen. The cogs will keep turning and we'll have to sort the crap out. > > With regards to the compiler situation; As much as I don't really appreciate MSVC, the execution speed differential of GCC (with -O2 optimisations) and MSVC compiled wxWidgets samples is incredible. MSVC wins by an order of magnitude, especially for start-up times. I wanted to investigate the ELF header information. Apparently GCC can be a bit overly verbose with regards to ELF information which can slow load times significantly. >
The code is relocatable. Maybe it has been prerelocated. We can stop talking about msvc now. Its been banned, and for that I paid for a-mingw-us development. So really I don't want to hear about it. > Anyway, I'm kind of glad to hear the scripting window is not uniquely broken on Windows builds. In that case, I can forget about fixing it before releasing scripting through KiCad-Winbuilder. So I can get on and release that ASAP then. :) > > Best Regards, > > Brian.
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