From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...> - 2003-09-26 13:01:12
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Support Requests item #812917, was opened at 2003-09-26 03:06 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by david__schmidt You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=812917&group_id=11118 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Sources for windows Initial Comment: i downloaded sources as i wanted to add some stuff that is bothering me in windows version (ex. proxomitron user), like some additional tracing of posted data in console window (that i want to change allso into RTF control, some coloring is nice to find info you are looking for). As usual in all open source projects i have encoutered by now (except Snort, tiny light of tidy sources in open source chaos), source is really *easy* compilable and it compiles without warnings, errors etc. Even *sigh* .rc file is opened without complaing some config.h (what config.h? that one with #include "..\config.h? :D) file is missing. Would you be so nice and create some source pack where people first time encountering your project would be repelled by 510 error(s), 142 warning(s) and some other annoyances. It is nice that you included project files for msvc++, but be so nice to configure them to work with BASE installation of msvc++ or at least include documentation how to build them (not with make!). Some will probably call me lazy ass (or i missed something; it is 9.00 here and i still didnt drink my coffee :), but i am really annoyed, if i want to do something that will take me 2 hours of development and spend 2 days to configure project so i can start developing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: David Schmidt (david__schmidt) Date: 2003-09-26 09:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=249980 The tools to build Privoxy are very GNU-oriented, and thus extremely cross-platform. MSVC++ is not particularly so. :-) That's why everything essentially requires autoheader, autoconf and make... and, by the way, that's how config.h gets generated. I think some work has gone on in years past to make building with stock Windows tools easier, but that inevitably falls behind the core development on every other platform. The Windows gurus stop by now and again, so hopefully someone who knows more about that platform will be able to help you more. Your comment about the RTF control is interesting... but what about something a little more cross-platform? Like HTML tagging the log lines so we could have a browser display them, or some other control in java or something? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=211118&aid=812917&group_id=11118 |