[DGD] Gurbalib resurrection, followup

[Dread Quixadhal]

Hehehe, you could always download a 120-evaluation copy of Windows
(assuming they still do that) and install it to a VM under linux... :)

No, I'm not suggesting that.  I've just seen other open source
projects that were unix-based, and they put enough #ifdef ugliness in
to get it workable under windows, but they didn't distribute any build
environment files for it.  All well and good for the professional
coder who uses VS every day at work, but a bit of a pain for the
hobbiest who now has to spend an hour figuring out how to import the
source and get it compiled.

That's the only reason I mentioned it.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM,  <bart at wotf.org> wrote:
> Well, I believe DGD compiles on windows with visual c++ 6 or later, so that
> shouldn't be a problem. Also, the file/dir naming issues are solved in one way
> or another already in the unpatched driver.
>
> The issue is that host/win32/connect.c will have to be changed for use with
> the network package. Currently, it very likely won't compile on windows at all
> after adding the network package, and if it does, the networking package won't
> work, and probably the entire thing won't work.
>
> I have a good idea of what needs to happen there, but neither the development
> tools, testing environment or windows knowledge to do this myself (and no,
> downloading visual studio express isn't going to fix that because I would
> still need a windows machine to run it on, which I simply do not have).
>
> Bart.
>
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:58:44 -0400, Dread Quixadhal wrote
>> If anyone is planning on kludging things into Windows (native), it
>> would probably be wise to get a copy of Visual Studio and get things
>> setup to work in the environment.  While I realize there are plenty
>> of other IDE's out there, there's a good chance that someone who really
>> wants to develop in Windows (as opposed to cygwin, or linux in a VM),
>> will be using Visual Studio to do it.
>>
>> I believe they do have a free version (Visual Studio Express?) that's
>> probably good enough.
>>
>> Personally, I haven't used Visual anything since VB6 and SQL Server,
>> so I know nothing beyond rumors.
>>
>> One other common gotcha in Windows is that their filesystem is case
>> rememberant.  That is, it remembers the case of the filename you
>> save, but it is case insensitive otherwise... so /usr/system and /usr/System
>> would be the same directory.
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