On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Vincent Torri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Vincent Torri <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:51 PM, LM <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Vincent Torri wrote:
>>>>* about the build, there is a wiki page, but it's not up to date
>>>>(because of some move in the trunk). Before that move, i can build and
>>>>run the EFL on Windows XP. I've never tried with win > XP
>>>
>>> I read the wiki page.  As you mentioned, it's not up-to-date.
>>>
>>> So, does this mean there's no place to submit patches and work-arounds
>>> for Windows developers?  I've already spent quite a lot of time trying
>>> to track down why certain libraries wouldn't compile and coming up
>>> with patches.  I have evil, eina, evas, ecore, eet, embryo compiling
>>> and building successfully with patches.  Was looking into edje which
>>> also won't build on my system without patching.  I thought standard
>>> procedure with Open Source projects was to contact the developers and
>>> share fixes needed to make them work on other platforms.
>>
>> send the patches on the ML, please. I'll take care of them (well i'll
>> be away for 5 days, so don't expect them to hit svn immediatly). I
>> prefer the ML instead of a private mail.
>>
>>>> * dlfcn-win32 is dead and the author does not want to add non POSIX
>>>>extension (like the GNU dladdr, which I have added). I have too less
>>>>time to fix that. If you can provide a patch that fix all the
>>>>problems, fine, otherwise, install the EFL in their own directory, it
>>>>will fix the problem
>>>
>>> MinGW project still recommends the dlfcn-win32 library.  If you have
>>> something better, you should let them know about it.  Thanks.
>>
>> I don't use MingW, I use mingw-w64. A LOT better. And as I said, just
>> install the EFL in their own dir, it's sufficient.
>>
>> I won't let MinGW devs know about that problem as they won't do
>> anything anyway about dlfcn-win32. I've already dealt with them, with
>> patches, etc... I have patches in their bugzilla that I sent 6 or 7
>> years ago... So I gave up.
>>
>> The problem with Windows is that there is no centralized package
>> system. The only viable solution is to install a project, an
>> application, etc... in its own directory.
>
> also, for the current efl/ subdir, eina can not be compiled
> (eina_thread.c), I'm waiting for cedric to fix that code (it's his
> code..)

It has just been fixed. I can compileevil, eina, eet and embryo
without any problem

Vincent

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