Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Win32 build with MinGW

2010-05-17 Thread Peter Åstrand
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Adam Tkac wrote: As I wrote above I will test MS Visual Studio 2010 Express. If it will work fine then I will update *dsp build scripts and I will start to maintain them, it shouldn't be so hard. I agree with you that for Windows only developers Visual Studio environment is

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Win32 build with MinGW

2010-05-17 Thread Adam Tkac
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 04:52:09PM +0200, Peter Åstrand wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Adam Tkac wrote: As I wrote above I will test MS Visual Studio 2010 Express. If it will work fine then I will update *dsp build scripts and I will start to maintain them, it shouldn't be so hard. I agree with

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Win32 build with MinGW

2010-05-17 Thread DRC
On 5/17/10 9:52 AM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the problems with MinGW instead? If the official downloads are bad, we can provide our own MinGW-for-windows. Shouldn't be very difficult. Sounds more fruitful than trying to maintain multiple build systems. Windows

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Win32 build with MinGW

2010-05-17 Thread DRC
I personally find IDE's more of a struggle than command line tools. Plus, switching to a new IDE would be a lot more trouble than simply converting and fixing the existing DSP files. Additionally, we'd still have to use Visual C as the underlying compiler. It's not that building TigerVNC from

Re: [Tigervnc-devel] Win32 build with MinGW

2010-05-17 Thread DRC
On 5/17/10 12:18 PM, Peter Åstrand wrote: Per my previous message, there are a lot of additional components required, not just MinGW. We'd have to distribute the necessary MSYS components as well. MSYS is a part of the MinGW project; not a big problem. In total, this would amount to