I've given up on doing this current run of cleanup/clarification work on my normal dev machines only, and started setting up a Windows development environment on my desktop at home :-( . I don't like leaving things broken in svn and it's clearly impossible to avoid it without having such a setup.
If someone can suggest / provide a legal way to get a copy of: - Visual C++ 6 - Borland TurboC that'd be helpful. Visual Studio 2009 is easy, and I'm not going to bother with Visual Studio 2005 as well since between VC6 and 2009 we should cover it pretty well. I already have MinGW as part of Qt. This means I will ****NEED**** a copy of Visual Studio 6 for TESTING PURPOSES ONLY. Is anybody able to suggest a legal way to obtain a copy for testing? ****64 bit users****: I'm also going to have to look into 64-bit Windows. I don't currently have any 64-bit windows versions installed despite all my hardware being 64-bit-capable. Windows XP x64 appears to require different license keys (WTF?!?) to the ia32 version. Is this the case for Vista Home Premium / Vista Business too, or can I just install the x64 version with the same key? If so, do I need different media, or does the Vista media contain both x64 and ia32 binaries? If I need media but my existing license is OK can a Windows 64-bit user post me media? ( I already have and test on 64-bit Linux ). I'd _really_ like some assistance from interested Windows users to work on a testing framework and script setup to automatically rebuild PoDoFo with these various compilers - in both DLL and static library forms - and run the unit tests. I'm thinking of putting something together with Python but if any Windows experts have suggestions about pre-existing tools designed for buildfarms on Windows that I can possibly use instead that'd be _REALLY_ handy. I have relatively little interest in Windows-based development, so I'm really doing this to save myself the hassle of having to chase up problems using second hand information. I'm getting paid for it, either, and as far as I'm concerned coding on Windows should attract a premium price. Many of our Windows users use PoDoFo in commercial projects and I expect to see some interest and (non-financial) assistance from them in assisting with getting Windows-based multi-compiler testing up and running. Ideally I'd like, later on, to be able to restore my home desktop to sanity and have one or more of our commercial Windows users running a build farm VM that automatically checks out and builds PoDoFo daily (or on demand) and posts a build report with any errors somewhere accessible. My time to work on all this is limited and I will _need_ assistance from those with an interest in seeing it go smoothly. ( If I don't see any interest, I'll personally probably just drop any effort at Windows compatibility, code for sane POSIX/UNIXy targets, and accept patches for Windows that don't break anything else. I can't speak for Dom in this, this is just me personally. ) -- Craig Ringer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
