MSVC 2008

[Michael Seydl]

On 13.03.2009, at 12:15, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:

>> Von: Pau Garcia i Quiles
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Christian Ehrlicher
>> <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Von: Pau Garcia i Quiles
>>>> 2009/3/13 Zeke Conner
>>>>> When will there be binaries for MSVC 2008? 2005 is quite old eh?  
>>>>> And
>> I
>>>>> already have 2008 installed and dun feel like going through the
>> hassle
>>>> of
>>>>> 2005 which I've already tried to before and it was just annoying.
>>>>
>>>> MSVC2005 and MSVC2008 are ABI-compatible, so you do not need  
>>>> special
>>>> binaries, as Christian said.
>>>>
>>>> However, if you want to build your own binaries for MSVC2008, it's
>>>> easy: you just need to set KDECOMPILER=msvc2008 in kdesettings.bat.
>>>> It's been there for at least six months.
>>>>
>>> The reason why I don't like this is that all win32libs (including  
>>> boost,
>> poppler and others) are compiled with
>>> msvc2005sp1 and therefore will use a different msvcrt. This can  
>>> lead to
>> problem which are hard to track for
>>> someone without knowledge. Therefore I strongly advise to *not* use
>> msvc2008 with emerge unless you
>>> know what you're doing...
>>
>> I agree but if someone if building its own binaries, I assume he  
>> knows
>> what he's doing :-)
>>
>> Ideally, the recently-started CMakePorts project (
>> http://code.google.com/p/cmakeports/ ) will CMake-ify everything in
>> win32libs and we'll be able to build the whole KDE, including its
>> dependencies, without downloading any binary.
>>
> I don't know what I should think about this - imho it's much better  
> to try to convince the maintainers to add cmake buildsystem (like I  
> did for libarchive, libpng, pcre and maybe others)

Actually i think there's no problem providing prebuilt version of  
these C-Libs because of their nature of memory managment. Most of the  
libaries provide their own freefunc versions, so no problem there.  
Only downside would be that you have to include both versions of the  
runtimelibs when deploying.

But it would be definitly cooler including these into the  
buildsystem :).
>
>
>> Actually, given that Boost, Poppler and others are available with a
>> CMake build-system, should we try building them from source instead  
>> of
>> downloading binaries from GnuWin32 and other places?
>>
> We do not download anything from gnuwin32 or somewhere else. All in  
> win32libs is build by our own.
> The only reason why there's a win32libs-bin is that we don't want to  
> build the whole stuff ever and ever again (especially since some  
> packages only build on mingw, some need even msys, ...)
>
> Christian
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