Re: [Opencxx-users] OpenCXX and Windows

[Grzegorz J. <ja...@ac...>]

Luke Petre wrote:
> Do any of the releases of opencxx build and run on windows?  I'm using 
> Windows XP with Visual C++ 7.1.  I also have the latest version of 
> cygwin installed.

Win+Cygwin has been reported to work after minor modifications. 
Moredetails you can find in mailing list archive, look for postings from 
Dmitri Grigorenko and Gilles Seguin. Gilles is currently applying his 
patches (Cygwin fixes) in rel_2_8 branch, they are going to be merged 
into trunk after 2.8 is out.

Win+MSVC perhaps requires a little bit more tweaking. Most likely your 
problems are either due to libgc or libltdl. My understanding is that to 
be able to run under MSVC you need to get rid of dependencies on 
libltdl. If you don't need plugins (and most likely you don't) it should 
be easy to do. Some time ago Asen Kovachev was struggling on XP+MSVC and 
he succeede as far as I remember. The changes have not been checked in, 
however.

> I've tried building opencxx-2.7 using cygwin.  I've added the main() to 
> lbtl.c to get lbtl to link but I can't run the occ.exe executable 
> without it crashing.

Yes, pls. refere to the archives, exactly the same symptoms.

> I've also tried building from the head of the CVS tree but configure 
> doesn't even run.

Could you post the output of configure and content of config.log ?

> 
> Suggestions?  Should I try an earlier release?

Not recommended. Let's move forward, not backward :-)

BR
Grzegorz