[Plib-devel] RE: [Freeglut-developer] STEF TO JOHN PLIB PUI TROUBLE

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

OK, I sent this to the wrong PLIB address and it is probably somewhere in
the bit bucket now.

Stephane Gerard of the "freeglut" mailing list mentioned that his "plib.dsw"
doesn't work.  Steve wrote back asking for details and mentioning that it
works for everybody else.  My response is below, with his answer.

Steve is right, this has not been mentioned on the PLIB mailing list before,
probably because nobody besides me ran into it and I didn't think it worth
mentioning.  The post-build "copy" feature is useful enough to me at work
(and presumably to everybody else in the MSVC community) that I don't want
to take it out.  I daresay it's an MSVC bug--and my copy of the compiler is
several years old, and free (the introductory version).  But now Stephane
has apparently run into it too, and perhaps we should do something about it.
I suggest putting something in the "README" file, largely because I can't
think of anything else to do.

John F. Fay
joh...@eg...



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Subject: Re: [Freeglut-developer] STEF TO JOHN PLIB PUI TROUBLE


Fay John F Contr AAC/WMG wrote:

>         Well ... actually, it doesn't work for everyone else.  Whenever 
> I download PLIB on my home computer (MSVC 6.0 Introductory Edition) I 
> have to remember to remove all the "copy" commands from the post-build 
> step because they cause my compiler to freeze.  It freezes so badly, in 
> fact, that I usually have to reboot.

Yikes!

I don't recall seeing anything about this on the PLIB mailing list.

We need to find a way around this.  I tend to zone-out when it comes to
MSVC issues - but it really ought to work properly.

>         I've answered Stef separately about this giving the details of 
> my workaround and mentioning that this is an issue for the PLIB mailing 
> list rather than "freeglut".

Ah - I hadn't even noticed which list it was sent to!.   Thanks!

> I'd also like to echo your note about error reports needing a lot more 
> detail than simply saying "It doesn't work."

Yeah - it's *REALLY* annoying.

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