Re: [icu-support] Building static libraries on Windows

[Ingmar K. <ing...@gm...>]

I think JC envisions some sort of XML-type build source file, that can then
be used to generate any supported project file (e.g. .vcproj). Maybe I
misunderstood.

I do have another questions/suggestion though. Why not include static
libraries in the binary distribution of the ICU for Windows? Most people
probably don't even need to compile it, and on Windows this would make sense
IMHO.

This wouldn't be a good solution under Unix of course, but for Windows?


Ingmar.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Steven R. Loomis <sr...@ic...>wrote:

> JC,
>  Like any other standards, the nice thing about IDEs is that there are
> so many of them. OK, maybe that's not a nice thing.
>
>  You may be able to get an IDE for a platform, but that doesn't mean
> that your application uses it or uses it exclusively for builds.  It
> seems like some users use an entirely different build system anyways.
>
>  It may be simple to build project files for platform X, but I don't
> think that keeping them in sync is trivial.  How would you envision it
> working?
>
>
> -s
>
> J. C. Jones wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I could be wrong, but it seems that today, in 2009, the vast majority of
> development platforms are IDE-enabled.  If so, why not make full use of each
> IDE?
> >
> > After all, it would be nearly trivial to build the Visual Studio
> solution/project files from a specification of the architecture of the code
> base.
> >
> > My guess is that other platforms would be equally easy.
> >
> > --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Steven R. Loomis <sr...@ic...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> From: Steven R. Loomis <sr...@ic...>
> >> Subject: Re: [icu-support] Building static libraries on Windows
> >> To: "ICU support mailing list" <icu...@li...>
> >> Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 7:07 PM
> >>
> >> Dave,
> >>
> >>  There certainly are other operating systems. But, a POSIX
> >> (command-line) environment lets us target a vast number of
> >> them, from a
> >> single set of makefiles.  If a cross platform strategy
> >> like Cmake could
> >> work, that might be worth moving to. Don't forget that
> >> we have
> >> maintained the Windows project files alongside the
> >> Makefiles for quite
> >> some time. So, we certainly are not Unix-only. If you have
> >> a better
> >> strategy for making the project files work in a flexible
> >> and
> >> customizable way I am sure suggestions would be
> >> appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ingmar,
> >>
> >>  Please post or file bugs on any issues you run into with
> >> using Cygwin.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> srl
> >>
>
>
> --
> Steven R. Loomis  sr...@ic...
> Technical Lead, ICU for C/C++   <http://icu-project.org>
> IBM San José Globalization Center of Competency
> <http://ibm.com/software/globalization>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus
> on
> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
> Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
> _______________________________________________
> icu-support mailing list - icu...@li...
> To Un/Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icu-support
>