MSVC 2008

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

2009/3/13 Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>:
> Pau Garcia i Quiles schrieb:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Christian Ehrlicher
>> <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> It's not just the cmake buildsystem. It's also the ability to actually compile the sources with msvc or even with
>>> mingw without doing some extra magic (see shared-mime-info for example!)
>>
>> I've looked into
>> emerge/portage/win32libs-sources/shared-mime-info-src/ but I fail to
>> see the magic. What I see is a CMake build system which carefully
>> checks for types, etc., which is good and I have to congratulate you
>> for your nice work (really). Granted, it's not as easy as listing the
>> source files and adding ADD_LIBRARY and TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES but if
>> that's what's required, that's what's required.
>>
> So you want someone who wants to compile KDE to download and patch gtk
> stuff just to compile an executable which works fine when compiled with
> mingw and downloaded as binary? Nice... are you using LFS? This would at
> least explain your point.
> And you really shouldn't forget all the stuff which isn't compilable or
> about the confusion when someone later tries to use libpng.dll compiled
> with msvc with mingw compiled executable...

The point is minimizing dependencies. If I build KDE with MSVC2008,
I'd like it not to depend on the MSVC2005 redist.

> I can't tell you what you should do (nor do I want) but it would be far
> much better trying to fix things inside KDE instead thinking about how
> to compile something that already works.

There are many things to fix and improve, inside and outside of KDE.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)