On 7 Jun 2005 at 8:14, Andrew McDonald wrote: >> Are >> you going to attempt to use TnFOX with mingw? )) > > My alternatives are mingw, and bcc 5.5 and I've just downloaded the > Visual C++ Toolkit.
There's only build support included for ICC and MSVC on Windows, and GCC and ICC on POSIX. A lot of the build system is hardcoded to assume that if it's GCC, it must be a POSIX system. I'm not hugely willing to change this - GCC never did fit into win32 well and without a lot of work never will. Only masochists try getting it to reliably interoperate with windows code which uses a different executable binary format and ABI and symbol mangling. Besides, there are plenty of free-as-in-money quality compilers for win32 nowadays. You even get a free quality debugger from MS in the form of WinDbg. > I saw your post in foxgui-users and you mentioned needing a computer > with 1GB RAM, I assume it is needed for the python tests!!?? Rather it's to build the bindings. My machine uses about 1.2Gb of RAM during linking. > My box is an AthlonXP 1800 w/ 256MB RAM, will it take days? Almost certainly yes. Now that the bindings are complete, memory usage is likely to grow even further. I may investigate partial linking as even on my machine, MSVC's link is O(log n) so if one could halve the symbol number, you substantially decrease link time. Cheers, Niall ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Tnfox-discussion mailing list Tnfox-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tnfox-discussion
