On 7/20/2012 5:12 PM, John Beardmore wrote: > <snip> > > Out of interest, why are Microsoft tools used to build Scribus ? > > Surely the standard Linux gcc is used on other platforms ? > > > Cheers, J/. I'll confess my ignorance, but isn't life suppose to be simpler using Microsoft compilers for Windows builds? (I don't think it is; in fact, what they try to do to make things simpler just makes is harder.) I have no experience in cross compiling for windows outside of windows, but if you know it to be a common practice, please speak up. have cross compiled in Gentoo from an AMD to ARM and found it to be peppered with some peril. My cross compiler was humming, and then suddenly some of the target programs started failing with obscure messages. It was very complicated and I just stop cross compiling to save myself hours of trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
It's my fear that some library some where will require a windows specific item and that all the time trying to set up a build environment outside of windows will have be for naught. -- Email Rider John Laurence Poole P.O. Box 6566 Napa CA 94581-6566 707-812-1323 office -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120720/2d901982/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: jlpoole56.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 164 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120720/2d901982/attachment.vcf>
