On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:10:43PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:08 -0700, Daniel C. wrote: > > Will this work with a library that's > > expecting to be installed on a Unix box? > > > > I've never used swig before and have never written anything > > substantial in Python. Any help that anyone can give here would be > > vastly appreciated. > > Sounds like you might be biting off more than you can chew. At least > more than you can chew quickly. I hope this is a hobby project you can > afford to spread over a few months. > > If you're lucky, someone else has already done the work to make libgpod > buildable on Windows. A little quality time with Google will turn up > links like: > > http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.ipod.gtkpod/2006-07/msg00010.html > > If no one else has done the work yet, you're going to have to get your > hands dirty with C and/or C++. You can try porting to straight MFC, or > you can try cheating by using an environment like Cygwin. The first is > probably more likely to succeed, while the second is probably easier. > > Of course, to pull either off you'll probably have to modify the build > system. With Cygwin, you might get lucky and have to make only minor > changes to a makefile or autoconf rules. If you decide to go with MFC, > you might be able to have VS do the heavy lifting. Of you might end up > learning more about building software on either system then you ever > wanted to know. >
If you do port the library to Win32, please forget everything mentioned above about MFC. You do not have to use MFC to write a Win32 application, especially a library. -- Byron Clark
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