Subject: Re: More psiconv woes
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 17:56:04 CST
Sam TH wrote:
> I certainly think that it is very important to support all kinds of
> platforms, Unix and non-Unix. I hope no one got the impression that I
> have ever not thought that. I've had to defend this position multiple
> times to GNOME people and the like, but I have *always* been on the
> side of making AbiWord portable to everything humanly possible.
Knowing this I was even more surprised that you stated that cygwin was
the only "official" way of building AW on win32, and that made me wonder.
Looking back I think I came down a bit hard. Perhaps I just was a bit too
itchy after looking at some really bad old C code for another project I'm
involved in. Sorry.
> Cygwin is just a method for *building* AbiWord.
Agreed. "A" method. I now also understand that it's built without any
dependencies on the cygwin dll which was my major concern.
> I said that it was the official way because it
> is the way we provide in the CVS sources.
Gotcha. But, IIRC I originally got the project files I currently use from
your area at abisource. Could Dom or I interest you in some updated project
files for VC6?
>Just out of curiosity, how do you normally build Abi, with
>Cygwin or with your own project files?
Since I don't even have cygwin installed all my builds and debugging is from
within the MSVC6 IDE. If I ever need some autoconf stuff I usually ftp the
tarballs to one of my GNU/Linux boxes and run it there, ftp the result back
and tweak it to match the win32 view-of-the-world. And, in case someone
wonders, I've never tried to build AW on anything but win32.
/Mike
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