[K3d-development] Win32 Holiday Surprise

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

I have just checked-in the finishing touches on a Win32 build for K-3D 
0.5.  This build uses a 100% free-as-in-freedom toolchain (MinGW), and 
is the first K-3D Win32 build that I would consider stable enough for 
production.  In fact, there are no known issues with this build, and 
with the exception of some missing third-party library dependencies it 
is fully functional, right down to the Move Tool and Rene's icons.

The big breakthrough that made this build possible was letting-go of 
shared libraries, and just statically linking everything together. 
Sounds strange, and it makes for a long link at the end, but you can't 
argue with success.

It occurred to me that the static build might be of use on OSX too, as a 
workaround for the various dynamic-link issues reported there, so I've 
separated the static build into its own configuration; I encourage 
anyone interested in doing a 0.5 build on OSX to try a clean build with 
K3D_STATIC_BUILD defined.

I will post the new build instructions when the new Wiki goes live, 
which should be Real Soon Now.  In the meantime, you can see a 
screenshot at http://k3d.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/oddmuse.pl/ScreenShots.

Cheers,
Tim