Build manually for MSVC2008

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 29.05.09 10:40:18, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've now setup a VMware to do some windows-development for KDevelop4 and
> > as I understood from previous emails its a bit of work, but probably
> > better to build with MSVC2008.
> > 
> > Now the question arises: How to I prevent emerge from fetching binary
> > packages? If I cannot do that, is there some docs how I create binary
> > packages myself and lets emerge use them (apart from the source code)?
> > And last but not least: Does anybody have a list of packages where
> > emerge downloads the binary instead of compiling it?
> Well, the point is that in most cases you don't even need to recompile
> the binary packages - older libraries will be understood by the newer
> compiler. The biggest problem is that the boost binary package doesn't
> contain libraries for 2k8 compiler and thus needs to be recompiled.
 
As far as I understand our windows experts here at work, mixing different
runtime libraries inside the same application can be problematic - causing
strange crashes etc. 

I'd like to avoid hunting down crashes that are possibly caused by such
mixing.

> This should be about the only compiler related problem so far.
> As this is about to change in the coming days (boost package will be
> packaged), this how-to is really only temporary.

Yeah, I just can't wait :) 

Andreas

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