Subject: Re: building on windows very very odd
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 18 2001 - 15:18:19 CST
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:09:46PM +0000, horkana wrote:
> From the Build.txt of Abiword 0.7.11
>
> > You also need Visual C++ 5.0. Obviously, we don't use the IDE at all,
> > but we do use the compiler, headers, libraries, and so on. You'll
> > need them all to be in your PATH, since the Makefiles will expect them
> > to be readily available.
> >
>
> It seems really weird to me that to build an open source project i have
> to buy an expensive proprietary IDE from Mircosoft
>
> Is this still true?
Well, you do need VC++, but you don't need to use the IDE.
> is there a workaround?
Not currently.
> how hard would it be to change this?
Theoretically, it should be pretty easy, since the other builds mostly
use gcc, and use the same makefiles. However, the greater source of
difficulty might be keeping it so that both compilers continue to work
properly, since lots of our developers don't want to use gcc.
sam th
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