Re: [Celestia-developers] Compiling Celestia?

[Pat S. <pa...@su...>]

Fridger Schrempp wrote:
> The whole setup is however not so easy to describe in detail, since a 
> number of things have to fit precisely together, like the locations of 
> headers, libs and Release & Debug dirs for each project. Remember the 
> /whole/ thing is called 'solution'. It consists of a number of 
> 'projects', corresponding to  the compilation jobs in the various 
> celestia subdirs.

You know, I think it's a matter of definitions, locations of files, and 
the non-uniformity of setup that makes this difficult for me. For 
example, I can't think how I'd install an additional library (say we 
started using libtiff for screenshots). It's not wrong or impossible, 
it's just different.

You have to admit, it's a little funny that someone's having a hard time 
figuring out a compiler like this. Normally, the bulletin boards are 
filles with "How do I get GCC to do this..." and "How do I add x to 
automake?". I seem to be the opposite. :)

The goal of the exercise is to use GTK for windows and build gtkmain to 
run in a Windows environment. Some friends suggest that this is actually 
easier in MSVC than in MINGW, but I was hoping to make it a Christmas 
research project to see. It would be a neat proof-of-concept for one of 
the Celestia toolkits being useful over the full spectrum of operating 
systems. Also, unlike running under Cygwin, there should be a smaller 
penalty on using an extra layer on top of gdi.

In general, that thread in the forums on using vs.net is useful. It 
wasn't yet back up when I started this thing.

--Pat