[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Windows builds

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:11:43 -0500

There wilkl be very little duplication. I'm keeping the problems with 
the special directory for the Mac in mind. Again, I am porting only the 
libraries and the file2brl program. I will also generate .lib files.

John

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:31:12AM +1000, James Teh wrote:
> On 20/05/2011 3:21 AM, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> >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.
> Ah. Is that because you don't have the .lib file? I think there's a way 
> to generate that from MinGW stuff, but it doesn't natively generate them.
> 
> Btw, I don't disagree that we should use the Microsoft toolchain fi we 
> can. The problem is the way it has to be done. I am concerned that the 
> Makefiles and headers will get out of sync. Even if they don't, any sort 
> of duplication is never a good thing.
> 
> Jamie
> 
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