[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Windows builds
- From: Neil Soiffer <NeilS@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:21:40 -0700
I tried to use the mingw-built dlls from a visual studio project and they do
not seem to be compatible with visual studio... at least we couldn't figure
out how to link to them. I think I remember someone else on the list saying
they couldn't get them to work either, but I could be wrong about that.
Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>wrote:
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > liblouis and liblouisutdml will have new "windows" directories that
> > contain a configuration file and a makefile for nmake. Porting new
> > releases for either 32 or 64 bits will then be simply a matter of
> > modifying the configuration file and then running nmake.
>
> We had this approach before in that we had a directory for Mac where a
> copy of the Makefiles were. However whenever there was a change in the
> Makefiles (say there was a table) we forgot to also update the Makefiles
> for the Mac. So I'd say this approach failed. Luckily in the end it
> turned out the you can use autotools on the Mac and we got rid of the
> Mac-specific Makefiles.
>
> I'm worried that this will be the fate of a windows specific build
> directory. I managed to cross-compile liblouis before using mingw, so
> I'd really like to know what the problems with mingw are.
>
> > Scons sounds interesting. Frankly, i don't like autotools, but I don't
> > think we will switch.
>
> I kinda like autotools and its tight integration with the rest of the
> tool chain (gnulib, generation of the documentation, etc), but then
> again I only build on Linux. I wouldn't mind a more modern build tool
> like cmake or scons, however I think this is a lot of work and I will
> not invest any time in it.
>
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