> I work mainly on the Mac, but am having to produce a cross platform > version of an app I am putting together right now and have dived into > VS 2005 expecting it to be as easy as XCode.. How wrong I was!!
I think this laregely stems from Microsoft not defining a specific place to put libraries; it's entirely up to the library developer as to where his .libs and .dlls go. I suppose this is technically true of Linux (and OSX?), but there are at least conventions set up, and any developer would be daft to install libraries anywhere else. It also isn't helped by Windows shortcuts not behaving anything like symbolic links. What I do is use hard links, which are available in Windows (well, it's an NTFS thing, so if you're on FAT32 (why?) then it won't work). I can't remember the specifics, but a quick Google will tell you the steps necessary to enable them. What I have is a lib folder, and I create a hard link for each .lib that I use. Then you can put this path in Visual Studio, without having to add all the paths manually. But I share your frustrations with compiling projects that have dependencies. OSG was painless for me, but other libraries have caused me to nearly thow the darn computer out of the window! John Donovan Sony Computer Entertainment Europe http://www.scee.com ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email message has been checked for all known viruses. ********************************************************************** Sony Computer Entertainment Europe _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
