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 > > -- > James Teh > Vice President, Developer > NV Access Inc, ABN 61773362390 > Email: jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Web site: http://www.nvaccess.org/ > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com