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

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

Yan Cheng Cheok wrote:

>Hello Fabbri,
>
>This few days, I saw some SIP mailing list is going hot into my mailbox. ;)
>
>SIP seems like an interesting project. Can I join this project? Is
>there any task which may be taken by me at this moment?
>
>I had been sourceforge user for some time and know the basic usage for
>cvs (i am once using tkcvs as gui tool. now, i stick to lincvs under
>linux and tortoise cvs under windows)
>
>thank you very much and hope to hear from you soon.
>
>cheok
>
>On 7/27/05, Ricardo Fabbri <rf...@gm...> wrote:
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>
>>Hi, Zhang,
>>
>>nice that you tried. It is a slow process, don't get disappointed.
>>Let's try it little by little.
>>
>>I don't get those annoying permisison denied errors you are getting.
>>Perhaps it would be a good idea to report the issue to MinGW mailing
>>lists or developers.
>>MinGW is supposed to be extremely stable.....
>>
>>well, good luck, and feel free to work in any activity, although this
>>one is priority..
>>thanks,
>>
>>On 7/26/05, Zhang Cheng <ch...@ma...> wrote:
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>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Ricardo Fabbri
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>>LEMS - Laboratory for Engineering Man-Machine Systems
>>Brown University, USA
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Hi, Yan

    I'm so glad to see your email. If you want to join SIP project, You 
may send a email to Ricardo, our Project Leader:-)

    I'm doing some hacking to simpletoolbox. Becauce I got disappointed 
with Mingw and MSYS, I decide to use native build tool on Windows. I 
read some articles on web talking about the GNU build system(aka 
autoconf,automake,libtool) and its alternative such as 
CMake(www.cmake.org) and SCons(www.scons.org). The capability of 
cross-platform build of the later two is very impressive. Used in VXL 
project, CMake shoud be familiar to Ricardo.

    I modify the SimpleToolbox today and use nmake( command line tools 
from Microsoft, also used by Scilab ) to build it. I succeed in 
generating libsimple.dll and loader.sce and installing them under the 
directory SCILAB/contrib automatically:-)

    Now I want to liston to other developers' ideas and suggections for 
further hacking.

BTW:
    How can I put a *toolbox* button on the panel of Scilab? What files 
shall I have to add under the directory SCILAB/contrib/simple? Now there 
are only two files(libsimple.dll and loader.sce) in that folder.

Zhang Cheng