Re: [Audacity-devel] Please ensure code quality before commiting

[Lynn A. <l_d...@ad...>]

James,

> I'd like some more detail on the GCC errors.  MSVC gives two
warnings
> only for the non-library code (an int/unsigned int mismatch in
> HostoryWindow.cpp and a warning about a long template name being
> truncated).  Is one particular kind of warning cropping up again and
> again?  [MSVC was set to level 3 warnings for previous incarnations
of
> Audacity.  I have upped it to the highest level now, in my local
build
> environment and will be checking in some revisions as a result.
> Unfortunately this level of warning also gives a lot of warnings for
> library functions to sift through.]
>
> Is there an easy way to track down 'bare' strings.  I'll be updating
> some that I know about.

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I'm not sure I understand the issues, but it may be possible to have
the use of gcc by using Dev-C++.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/

My experience with it was that the learning curve wasn't too bad.

Dev-C++ can import vc6 project files, but it probably isn't even
remotely realistic to convert the vc6 or vc71 project files to Dev-C++
so you can compile/link the whole thing and thus rebuild Audacity.exe.
However, you can use it to experiment with small test files to perhaps
be able to understand what it will take to fix the problems that the
Linux based developers are encountering.

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