Re: [SIP-devel] next step: Windows porting

[Zhang C. <ch...@ma...>]

Ricardo Fabbri wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>the next step is for you to try to compile the simple toolbox on
>windows using MinGW.
>More instrunctions available at: 
>http://siptoolbox.sourceforge.net/devel/windows-port.php
>
>after you succeed porting simple we then move to the next step.
>Contact this list at will during the process.
>
>PS: just to elevate our moods, check out:
>http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=68055&ugn=siptoolbox
>
>we are top 99,5% active in Sourceforge, around top 600 project, out of 100,000
>
>And this is without an updated windows version. Imagine with a new windows, 
>how can we boost the use of SIP and scilab as never before ;-)
>
>We all know SIP is a killer app for software like Scilab... Oh, and
>check also the freshmeat database:
>http://freshmeat.net/projects/siptoolbox/
>
>We have 53 release subscribers just in there..
>
>This project has very wide visibility, make use of it :)
>Good luck!
>  
>
I feel so bad to say that MingW is too unstable, very disappointing.
When I do ./configure, make and make clean and make again, some warnings
saying "Permission Denied" pop up on my MSYS and the make process cann't
continue. I close MSYS window and re-start it, the problem remains the same.
The only solution is reboot my computer. It's really unbearable!

I tried many times and succeeded only once. Although I renamed "LibSci*"
to lowercase, make still can't find "libsci*" and warn that it can only
build static library instead of dynamic library. I succeeded only once in
building dynamic library and the whole process was very smooth, but I
failed in other cases.

I didn't expect the huge difficulty of Windows port, now I begin to under-
stand it...:-(

Zhang Cheng