From: Daniel Glassey (danglassey@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 13:48:57 EDT
On 23 May 2002 at 3:50, Andrew Dunbar sent forth the message:
> --- Daniel Glassey <danglassey@ntlworld.com> wrote: >
> well, things look a bit better now. It now compiles
> > and should run fully
> > featured, the changes are:
> >
> > casts where what was passed in doesn't match the
> > function
> > changes to dialogs to have LISTBOX not start with a
> > ,
> > add a mingw zmouse since the system one is
> > incomplete
> > build system changes
>
> This is really great work. I've wanted AbiWord
> buildable with free tools on Windows for ages but
> never got around to trying it since coding is much
> more fun than build systems (:
agreed, though here it was a necessity since I don't want to fork out for msvc
just develop a plugin for a free app :) (fwiw it won't be for a generally useful
format)
Talking of build systems, I'd like to use the configure system to do cross-
compiles to mingw. Is there anyone that can help with that?
> > The only issue left afaict is plugins
>
> Once the plugins are done, we should put in the
> docs that you can now build Abi this way.
Plugins now work though it requires building AbiWord as dlls (patch to follow
sometime later). It might be possible to get mingw to backlink to an exe but I
haven't investigated it except to see that it doesn't work ootb.
At the moment I have it building everything into a big libAbiWord.dll and only
Win32Main.cpp and .rc in AbiWord.exe
Is it worth trying to spilt it into smaller dlls or are the dependencies too
intertwined?
> Thanks for your effort! Andrew Dunbar.
no problem :)
Daniel
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