From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:00:32 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Tammy Delahaye wrote:

> i don't suppose anyone out there's figured out how to do a nice and simple
> build of the uisimulator under windows or cygwin?

edx (Felix) is the man who can answer this better. He's the single person who
has bravely been struggling with making the simulator build on Windows. But
I'll give this a shot:

Use MSVC++ and use 'nmake -f Makefile.vc6' in the uisimulator/win32
directory.

> i've got VC++ 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET, but neither are working with any
> ease, so i thought i'd check to see if anybody could point me in the right
> direction..

It is not unlikely that recent code don't build properly using that compiler
and makefile. Most of the developers working on Rockbox use Linux and thus we
attempt to make the windows version build simultaneously (we have *some*
limited means to make sure of this) but we don't always succeed. Also, due to
very little help from Windows people, we can't expect edx alone to keep up
with the pace.

> I've got the rockbox built just fine with cygwin, using the 1.4 code, but
> before i start poking around in it, i'd like to get the simulator working
> if at all possible...

I, for one, would love to see someone putting together makefiles for building
the simulator using cygwin. After all, cygwin is the best suited environment
on windows for building Rockbox, AFAIK. So far, the cygwin developing
Rockboxers seem to be managing fine without building the simulator.

I can't do this myself, I don't run Windows.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- http://rockbox.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/

Received on 2002-12-29