Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-13 Thread Peter Åstrand
Ok to commit? If so, this means that we will start building WinVNC (and vncconfig.exe) during our automatic nightly builds. I've committed the patch with minor modifications (changing TightVNC Team to TigerVNC Team, expanding the description text in CMakeLists.txt, and including MSVC in the

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Åstrand
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Peter Åstrand wrote: I mentioned it several times on the list, in the context of our discussions regarding moving to CMake for Windows, regarding the autotools performance problem on Windows, etc. I've done a gmane search for libuuid on the tigervnc-devel list. No

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-10 Thread Peter Åstrand
So why didn't you report this? I cannot found anything about this, neither in the tracker nor on the mailinglist. The patch apparently worked fine for Adam and it worked fine for us. I mentioned it several times on the list, in the context of our discussions regarding moving to CMake for

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-07 Thread Peter Åstrand
For the record, I did try this 2 years ago, with the patch you and Pierre submitted upstream to MinGW. It compiled but did not link. So why didn't you report this? I cannot found anything about this, neither in the tracker nor on the mailinglist. The patch apparently worked fine for Adam

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-07 Thread DRC
On 10/7/11 2:35 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: For the record, I did try this 2 years ago, with the patch you and Pierre submitted upstream to MinGW. It compiled but did not link. So why didn't you report this? I cannot found anything about this, neither in the tracker nor on the mailinglist. The

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Åstrand
On 10/4/11 4:34 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Frankly, the fact that the main project developers insist on the use of esoteric build environments is a problem. MinGW had 1,059,337 downloads the last 7 days. The method of cross compiling Windows binaries on Linux, using MinGW, is used by popular

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread DRC
On 10/6/11 2:50 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Remind me, which functionality is missing if you build without Visual Studio? WinVNC. It's always been WinVNC. It seems to me that instead of wasting time on maintaining multiple tool chain, you could invest that time in streamlining the GCC based

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Åstrand
On 10/6/11 2:50 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Remind me, which functionality is missing if you build without Visual Studio? WinVNC. It's always been WinVNC. Yes, but what is the problem with WinVNC? Nevermind, I looked back at the discussions myself. It's the problem with IActiveDesktop missing

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread DRC
On 10/6/11 4:48 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Yes, but what is the problem with WinVNC? Nevermind, I looked back at the discussions myself. It's the problem with IActiveDesktop missing from the MinGW distro. IMHO, this is not unsolvable. If MinGW still refuses to add support for this, we should

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread Peter Åstrand
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011, DRC wrote: IMHO, this is not unsolvable. If MinGW still refuses to add support for this, we should be able to include the missing definitions in the TigerVNC code base. It's not just missing definitions. The patch you guys tried to commit upstream didn't work, because it

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Visual Studio or not

2011-10-06 Thread DRC
Wow, Peter. So condescending. If I was in any mood to compromise before, I'm certainly not now. For the record, I did try this 2 years ago, with the patch you and Pierre submitted upstream to MinGW. It compiled but did not link. Well, curiously, apparently that patch made it into MinGW64, and