Switch to MSVC 9.0 (aka 2008 express

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>  I'm happy that we got nearly all kde4 compile with msvc2005sp1 and I
>  have other things to do than jumping on every new compiler msvc
>  releases - msvc2005sp1 was crappy enough...

OK, forget about it.

> > Question: do you really compile everything with MSVC2005 or is
> > there also some Mingw compiled package in the repository? I am
> > thinking of the gettext libintl library. One of our developper
> > (Joost in copy of this mail) has created this dependency package
> > for us:
> >
>  we've also combined binary packages. See
>  http://download.cegit.de/kde-windows/repository/win32libs/single/ -
>  all files without 'msvc' and 'mingw' are combined ones (mostly)
>  compiled by our own.

You mean that these are compiled by your own using msys/mingw aren't you?

> > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008.zip
> >
> > Maybe you could pick up some packages in this? Joost told me that
> > he applied a few patches to Aspell, aiksaurus and int in order to
> > let them compile with MSVC2008.
> >
>  We only use aspell. Currently only the precompiled version from
>  gnuwin32 (0.50.3) because I had no time and will to test 0.60.5. But
>  at least it compiles. :) Aspell is one of our 'combined' packages
>  which is useable for mingw and msvc builds. It gets compiled with
>  msys.

OK, I see. FWIW, all binaries inside the above described archive are 
compiled with MSVC2008, including gettext and Aspell. We even have 
compiled most of the aspell dictionnaries, see 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6

Abdel.

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>  Christian
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