Build manually for MSVC2008

[Patrick Spendrin]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I've now setup a VMware to do some windows-development for KDevelop4 and
> as I understood from previous emails its a bit of work, but probably
> better to build with MSVC2008.
> 
> Now the question arises: How to I prevent emerge from fetching binary
> packages? If I cannot do that, is there some docs how I create binary
> packages myself and lets emerge use them (apart from the source code)?
> And last but not least: Does anybody have a list of packages where
> emerge downloads the binary instead of compiling it?
Well, the point is that in most cases you don't even need to recompile
the binary packages - older libraries will be understood by the newer
compiler. The biggest problem is that the boost binary package doesn't
contain libraries for 2k8 compiler and thus needs to be recompiled.

To achieve that you can simply do the following:
after calling emerge boost manually you can compile the package by
running emerge boost-src.

This should be about the only compiler related problem so far.
As this is about to change in the coming days (boost package will be
packaged), this how-to is really only temporary.

> 
> Andreas
> 
regards,
Patrick