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

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

2006/6/22, Robert May <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.

sure.
ask user for the path of the MSVC path
cp the local MFC headers to a private dir, patch them.
-- 
Reini