[PD] windows binaries / cvs

[guenter geiger]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, smoerk wrote:
> guenter geiger wrote:
> > hi smoerk,
> >
> > you are absolutely right, we should fix ASAP the build process for
> > Windows.
> >
> > But first, for those who want to try it, you have to install WinCVS.
> > It is pretty useless to download the CVS tarball (which, you are right,
> > can't be used for development).
>
> but there is a link on pure-data.sf.net which says "If you absoluetly cannot use
> CVS, there are nightly CVS-tarballs of the whole project tree available (around
> 15 MB currently)".
>
> maybe it would be wise to remove this, if there are no snapshots, which could be
> compiled.


you are right, I thought I had this removed already. thanks for the
pointer.

>
> what about cross-compiling from linux? i don't know if there is any chance to
> get it work... i cannot compile windows externals, because i cannot install a
> cracked version of MS VC++ on our university computers... ;-)
>

:( I see. Best would be we to get them compiled with mingw or something
then. Maybe I will find the time to do it ...

Greetings,

Guenter