[bt-devel] Windows development toolchain choice

[Martin Gruner]

Jonathan,

good proposal. I hope to have some time on Saturday to play with these things 
too.
Btw, boost is header-only, no compilation needed.

mg

On Wednesday 04 March 2009 21:23:05 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Greg Hellings wrote:
> > I have compiled and built CLucene under MinGW/MSYS many times - that's
> > not the problem.  The problem appears when the headers are included
> > from BibleTime.
>
> OK.  Can you perhaps put on the devel.bibletime.info wiki a step by step
> guide to how to set up a WinXP (or Win2K or even Vista) box, adding all
> the necessary pieces to get as far as you have got with this?
>
> I'm hoping for something that helps ensure everyone working on this sets
> up an appropriate development toolchain in a consistent fashion, along
> the lines of:
>
>  + Download and install MinGW version X like *this*,
>  + Download and install Boost version Y like *this*,
>  + Download and install Clucene version Z like *this*,
>  + Download and install an svn client version S like *this*,
>  + Install BT sources from svn like *this*,
>  + Now set *these* environment variables like *this*
>
>  - Do *this* to start a build.
>  - *These* are the errors we currently see.
>
> The current "TODO: finish figuring out how to compile with MinGW" is not
> exactly a lot to go on :)  Even if what we know is incomplete, could it
> please be documented?
>
> Then anyone who does find/make time to work on this can start from that
> point, and (hopefully) more forward from there?  If you (or someone
> else) already documented this development setup more thoroughly in a
> post to this list, then just point me to it in the list archives instead.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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