Re: [opsmodelling-general] Small survey

[Daryl L. <dl...@al...>]

I have both MingW and Cygwin.  I tried compiling the gui with MingW, but
found that I was missing some libraries.  If I recall, I didn't have
gtk.  Rather than go through the hassle of installing libraries, I just
switched to Cygwin.  The difference is that Cygwin has "everything",
whereas the Min in MingW stands for "Minimal".

Daryl

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 17:51 +0300, Fedor Lyakhov wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: amar <am...@us...>
> To: "Fedor Lyakhov" <ly...@li...>
> Subject: Re: [opsmodelling-general] Small survey
> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:48:20 +0530
> 
> > 
> >    My Os is linux fedora core 3 and my CVS version is 1.11.17.
> > 
> >    cvs -z3 -d:ext:am...@cv...:/cvsroot/opsmodelling 
> > co -P opsmodelling
> > 
> >   Using this command,I got the source.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> >   I got a problem with installing  cross compiler. Please tell 
> > which cross compiler  you are using.  I tried the minGW.
> > 
> >   I don't know much about cross compilers.
> 
> I'm using cygwin, but for now I suggest not to mess with crosscompilers (it would have been needed if you hadn't had linux)-- just use gcc in linux! We'll compile the src in windows somehow when it is done(because the src will be cross-platform) -- windows isn't good thing for working, I think. I decided to add support of windows because of two issues: 1.even many developers don't have linux  and 2.many users don't have linux.
> 
> About cygwin: I have too old version of it(old gtk), so I cannot compile gui in it. I used to compile some code(usually examples of using grapher, programs whose solve PDE's) in msvc.net 2002, but now I've given up, because I don't like ide's and windows, and problems with external libs(which isn't in linux!), and because I cannot create good solution file to work with directory' hierarchy (in linux it simply solved using relative path BASE=../../ in makefiles)
> 
> But: if you'll get latest version of cygwin, I think you won't have any problems with it (I have problems only because out-of-date cygwin) -- installation is natural and easy. Try it, if you want. (We'll do this when we are releasing finished program for windows).
> 
> And about minGW: I saw a usage of it a year ago. One man have ported latest at that time gcc 3.5 to it(compiled it with gcc 3.2 in minGW) in about 3 hours, and everything worked fine. But he is wizard in programming and gcc. 
> 
> There are many excellent expirienced developers in our project, maybe somebody uses minGW so he can say more than I?
> 
> Best regards,
> Fedor
> 
> 
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Daryl Lee
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