Hi Tim, If the changes are minor then I think we should include it in ledger. Testing the build and functionality, I can help with that. If the namespaces are the only change, then it should work straight in Linux, but I don't know C++, so please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks, Santosh On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Tim Crews <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, June 14, 2013 12:49:31 AM UTC-7, Tim Crews wrote: >> >> Hello: >> >> Since there are currently not any native Windows binaries publicly >> available for Ledger 3.0, and it seems that an official release is >> impending, I decided to make a stab at creating a Windows binary for the >> world to share. Up to now, I've been using a Cygwin build, but that's >> going to be pretty inconvenient for most Windows users. >> >> >> I am glad to report that another day of work got the job done. *I am > now running a native 32-bit Windows build of ledger 3.0, built with > Microsoft Visual C++ 11 (2012).* > > I've run the MathTests and UtilTests executables, and they report no > errors detected. But they ran suspiciously quickly (i.e. instantly, with > 53 test cases and 1 test case, respectively). > > But ledger passes the "it works for me" test. I'm able to invoke ledger > and run all of my weekly reports and my custom external utilities. My > native Windows Emacs ledger-new mode is able to invoke ledger successfully > and it gives me the results that I expect. > > I statically linked ledger to the GMP (actually MPIR) and MPFR libraries, > but dynamically linked to the Boost libraries (it's a long story). So to > run it, you need the executable plus three Boost dlls. I would be glad to > upload these files to someplace public if there's a standard location for > ledger binaries. I confess that I don't know what the licensing issues are > for redistributing this linked with these libraries. > > To get ledger to build under Windows, I had to make a total of three minor > changes: > > - In account.h, the calls to bind had to be changed to boost::bind > - In history.cc, the calls to tie had to be changed to > boost::tuples::tie > - I had to add an implementation for strptime, which is called from > times.cc (thanks to Max Erickson for the pointer to the google strptime > code.) > > I also couldn't get it to build against Boost 1.46.1 (lots of > incompatibilities in boost::filesystem), so I used the latest Boost 1.53.0 > instead. > > Tim Crews > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- |_|0|_| http://fossix.org | http://bug2b.fossix.org |_|_|0| Registered Linux user #462033 @ counter.linux.no |0|0|0| http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
