Switch to MSVC 9.0 (aka 2008 express

[Christian Ehrlicher]

> Von: Abdelrazak Younes
> Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > > Von: Patrick Spendrin Abdelrazak Younes schrieb:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I am involved in the LyX project and Peter Kummel had made easy
> > >> to use your Qt and GnuWin32 binaries for us (thanks by the way
> > >> Peter ;-) . I am happy to report that your installer worked
> > >> perfectly and I am very impressed by it. Would you consider
> > >> switching to MSVC 2008?
> > > Probably not that fast.
> > >> Another question, I know that LyX is not a KDE project but it
> > >> makes heavily use of Qt and your devel packages contains
> > >> everything needed to buid it. Would you consider adding LyX to
> > >> your build bot?
> > > No non-human build bot available currently. But I think it would be
> > > not a great deal to add LyX to our packages in the end.
> >
> >  Why the lyx people provide an instruction how to build it I've no
> >  problems to compile it on my 'human machine build system' :).
> 
> We have a CMake based build (among others) so it should be simple for 
> you :-)
> 
> svn co svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk trunk
> mkdir 1.6
> cd 1.6
> cmake ..\trunk\development\cmake -DGNUWIN32_DIR=c:\devel\kde -G "Visual 
> Studio 9 2008" -Dnls=1 -Daspell=1 -Dmerge=0
> 
we'll see - Saro can you give it a try?

> 
> >  But not with msvc2008 - it would force me to recompile every single
> >  lib build for msvc2005 and it would also force all uses to update all
> >  packages instead only the new ones. We would just get to much
> >  trouble.
> 
> I understand that. But, on the other hand, msvc2008 express is easier to 
> install and do not require any other support packages (the SDK IIRC). 
> This means that the barrier to entry for a new developper is lower :-)
> Do you have already many users anyway?
> 
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...

> 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.

> 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.


Christian

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