Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] [win32-gui] some more gnu make issues

[Robert M. <rm...@po...>]

Reini Urban wrote:
> 2006/6/18, Robert May <rm...@po...>:
>>>>> 3. gnu make, make test, make install doesn't recurse into the subdirs
>>>>> Win32-GUI-AxWindow, Win32-GUI-DIBitmap, Win32-GUI-Grid
>>>> That's by design.  None of those 3 modules can be built (as far as I
>>>> know) with gcc, as they rely on one or other of the MFC or ATL
>>>> frameworks, which only come with MS compilers.
>>> Ok, I'll port them then. Shouldn't be that hard to produce

[snip]

> Indeed, the real problem are the header files, which are not available
> in /usr/include/w32api
> I simply copy the original MSVC (6) MFC headers to a private subdir
> and patch these there.
> The stack manipulation #pragmas and some more MS specifics need to be addressed.
> If I have a working Stdafx.o the rest is easy.

That's OK as an approach for doing a private build, and a binary 
distribution, but AFAIK those headers don't have a re-distributable 
licence, so we won't be able to add them to the project source.

Regards,
Rob.