Re: [Libvisual-devel] Windows 32

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 16:21 -0500, Duilio J. Protti wrote:
> You can build all the thing using Cygwin alone, but in that case the
> libraries are linked against libcygwin.dll.a, and you need to distribute
> it along with libvisual in your releases. But if you use Mingw, you link
> against Window's dlls, so the only thing needed is Windows itself.

I think we should go for mingw, I've been playing with it for a bit, not
extremely succesful, but capable of running configure, and build
a very small part of libvisual. As Vitaly already pointed out, it's
borking a lot :)

> > and how can we make sure that
> > things like 'dlopen' are staticly linked ?
> 
> dlopen on Windows requires special care, I will post more on this issue
> soon.

Yes please give me some more information regarding this. I think, for 
the windows platform we should really focus for a, works out of the
box installer, probably including plugins for atleast winamp and 
windows mediaplayer. Is there a way of obtaining the standard
header files for the windows platform, without the need to buy
visual studio, or something ?


> You must also choose which installer to use, to start adjusting things
> for them.

Any suggestions on this, I think we should go for an installer that is
used a lot and is well known with the windows users.

Cheers,
Dennis