Re: [Quickfix-developers] Does quickfix build / run on cygwin?

[K. F. <kfr...@gm...>]

George -

I appreciate the reply.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:23 PM, George Tsafas <GT...@rb...> wrote:
> I have not built on windows but I do not see how you would not be able to
> build the c++ library.

Could you elaborate a little?  Do you mean build quickfix.dll / quickfix.lib
from c++ source?  Compile my own code that includes quickfix headers
(and links to the quickfix library)?  Also, when you say "build the library,"
which compiler do you have in mind?

Thanks for the feedback.


K. Frank


> "K. Frank" <kfr...@gm...> wrote:
>
> David -
>
> Thanks for the follow-up.
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:53 PM, David Kadoch <Dav...@th...>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Which ant task are you trying to run?
>> I am able to run the following ant task in cygwin:
>>
>> ant jar -Dskip.jalopy=true
>
> With ants and jars, do I assume correctly that you are talking
> about quickfixJ?  I'm looking to build the c++ version of quickfix.
>
> (Please let me know if I misunderstood your comment.)
>
> (Presumably it should be straightforward to build / run quickfixJ
> on windows, so this could be an option for me, but then I would
> have to port some c++ code to java, or build libraries for use with
> jni.)
>
> K. Frank
>
>> David
>> ...
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: K. Frank [mailto:kfr...@gm...]
>> ...
>> George -
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:24 PM, George Tsafas <GT...@rb...> wrote:
>>> Why build on a linux emulator on windows and not just on windows?
>>
>> Some code I have doesn't work with Visual Studio.  (Presumably that
> could be fixed, but I haven't looked into it yet.)  So I'm exploring my
> options.
>>
>> In rough order of preference:
>>
>> 1)  Build with mingw on windows.
>>     -- Issue:  My understanding is that quickfix doesn't work with
> mingw.
>>     (But please correct me if I'm wrong.)
>>
>> 2)  Build with cygwin.
>>     -- Issue:  Can this be made to work?  Hence my posting.
>>
>> 3)  Build on linux.  (I assume that this works out of the box.)
>>     -- Issue:  I don't have a linux box set up right now.
>>
>> 4)  Build with Visual Studio on windows.
>>     -- Issue:  Would need to get some existing code working on VS.
>> ...