CC += dev@ Patrick Kursawe wrote on Tue, 29 Jun 2010 at 13:42 -0000: > Am 6/28/2010 10:38 PM, schrieb Daniel Shahaf: > [...] > > Wow. > > NICE. > > > > You're the first person I know of to be able to build Subversion on > > Windows without fighting with it for days/weeks before... (and you even > > have a working debug environment) > > > > How did you do that? > > > > > If I had known this, I hadn't tried. Well, it was quite some fight, > and I don't remember all the gory details. I remember that I had to > add a lot of library paths and lib-files to the projects manually and > that it somehow helped to use the static libraries wherever available. > After grep-ing for a while to find all object and lib files which > could resolve all those unresolved symbols, I still got a problem with > _inflate_fast from zlib. I built zlib again this time using masm and > finally I could link svn.exe (didn't try to build any other > executable). In the debugger I had to learn that the command > parameters I specified were not passed to the program, so I replaced > argc/argv with self-defined variables containing the right stuff.
1. It *really* should be easier than that. (e.g., I can build by using a single '(n)make' invocation, and the debugger in VC just works without hacking argv/argc in main().) 2. "If you've made it this far, go and enjoy your $favorite_beverage now." Daniel
