Building on Windows

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 23 May 2012 May, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > * Why doesn't the words component of the Calligra source compile?
> 
> We need you!
> i.e. people are needed who often compile on Windows, fixing (often
> minor compile bugs) and once everything compiles, someone also needs
> to do the testing of apps running on the OS. MSVC is different
> compiler, so supporting is needs exactly this kind of maintenance,
> having compileable for gcc is not enough. The same applies to clang,
> which we may want to support one day.

Well, actually, Words compiles fine on Windows, and hasn't been broken for months now. The problem is that Taco manually recreated the build system and added code that currently is never compiled (intentionally) to his set of solutions.

He shouldn't do that.

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