"Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 10:47 AM -0700 10/12/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: >Pratik Chandra Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was wondering, whether I would just remain a mere >> spectator, or will I get an opportunity to do anything > > as well. > >If you're using Windows, there are several todo items specifically for >that OS; fixing those would be helpful, since there aren't too many >Windows hackers here.
Windows! Yeah, that'd be an amazing help. I went to go build parrot on Oni over the weekend to see how it went. Failed under both cygwin and VS/.NET, both because of ICU. (Cygwin was linking against a nonexistent ICU library, and the VS/.NET makefile was looking for an msdev executable to do something or other, but VS/.NET doesn't *have* an msdev program shipped with it...)
I didn't/don't have VS.NET, so my implementation in icu.pl only works for VS6. Sorry.
Not a problem -- it generally works, which is a Good Thing. I just don't do development on Windows, so I've no idea what this 'msdev' thing actually does. :)
The basic problem is that we have to build from the VS6 project files at the moment. There is, I believe, a way to convert these to makefiles which we'd ship with Parrot and then simply reference from the main makefile. Doing that would help both with VS.NET and other Win32 compilers, where VS6 is not available. Of course, it means that we're moving away from what's in the standard ICU distribution, but I've had to hack some stuff up in there anyway, IIRC.
I am *so* looking forward to being able to make ICU optional... -- Dan
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