[OpenSTA-devel] New build environment

[Daniel S. <da...@Op...>]

Inspired by Thierry's speed increase findings and the overall goal
of giving OpenSTA an up-to-date build environment I've been
experimenting...

Unfortunately I've not been having too much luck - so I'm going to
post my findings here in the hope of getting feedback, inspiration or
just ideas from others.

Thierry's good build environment uses a PSDK from Feb 2003 and
STLport 4.6.2 (the latest non-beta according to the Web site).  The
other are left as per the the current recommended elements; they
either have no updates, no good reason for updating or the switch is
a very major one.  This is a known good build, but it didn't fulfill
my goals of an *up-to-date* build environment - specifically I wanted
to use the current M$ PSDK as a priority...

This is a problem!  The current recommended PSDK is the Windows 2003
sp1 PSDK and causes issues - it specifically clashes with the STLport
4.6.2 version.  These aren't major problems (basically the PSDK
#define's __out to nothing which gives some templates a headache) but
they were enough to make me read further...  Basically the STLport
developers current attitude towards the 4.6.x release appears to be
that it is bad and dead and the upcoming 5.0 is better even in its
pre-release status!
  http://www.stlport.com/dcforum/DCForumID6/1757.html#3
However the RC3 and CVS versions of 5.0 have many issues building
OpenSTA, although none seem to be really major.  4.6.2 can be fixed
but ...

I've tried building with many different versions of STLport (released,
beta, CVS) and all have some issues at different points.  I'd really
just like to hear what other peoples views are on which direction and
priorities we ought to have in this area at this time...

The other little problem occurs when linking to the htmlhelp.lib in
this new PSDK - give these errors:
  htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2001:
    unresolved external symbol ___security_cookie
  htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2001:
    unresolved external symbol @__security_check_cookie@4
Explained here:
  http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolad/archive/2005/01/27/362214.aspx

All thoughts and comments on where we should go are very welcome.

Cheers
/dan
-- 
Daniel Sutcliffe <Da...@Op...>
  OpenSTA part-time caretaker - http://OpenSTA.org/