I just had a look at the GSL stuff, it does indeed need MinGW to take
it through the configure cycle to populate that missing gsl include
directory before it can build with VCanything.

I'll rev the windows readme.  In general TPP is a linux-y thing, stuff
gets added all the time that I have to figure out how to shoehorn into
windows.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jeffrey Milloy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Cool. May I suggest a revision of the windows readme, then? The
> following excerpts are misleading and/or false:
>
> "The TPP is currently maintained for two native Windows build
> platforms: MinGW and Microsoft Visual Studio C++.  Currently, Visual
> Studio 2005 Professional (VC8) is the only supported version."
>
> "You'll want to choose either MinGW (for everything except the mzXML
> converters) or VC8."
>
> Even in my last thread, Brian insisted that trunk built with VC8,
> which it does not. If the readme said that one must build with MinGW
> first, I would have been saved many many many hours. Perhaps someone
> in the future will have the same need.
>
> And thanks for sticking with me Brian, I will give it a go with MinGW!
>
> On Oct 14, 2:09 pm, Brian Pratt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > 1. Should I be able to build using *only* VC8?
>>
>> Not officially, no.
>>
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