Re: What GPL software have you been able to download and recompile successfully?


o///annabee wrote:

Easily...huh?
this is exactly the kind of mess I am talking about.
I click at one of those sites, and found a list of 100s of projects
I did know nothing about. Then when going into one of them, randomly,
a new list of 100s of files. nothing but a complete mess.

I would suggest you search on the net for "MAKE" and read all about it.
And while you're at it, check out the "CONFIG" scripts that usually
accompany the files. This is the standard way to build GNU (and, for
that matter, GPL) tools. Generally, a read-me or "howto" document
exists that explains how to build the document. If you've never done
any of this before, you might try purchasing one of the many
"open-source development" texts out there that explain the build
operation that most GNU software uses.


I will rephrase my question.

What _spesific_ projects have you downloaded, and compiled at your pc,
successfully, in less then one hour. Well, the answer should strive to
become, in less then 3 minutes.

Most of the time it simply involves unpacking the code, running config,
and you're done. If you want to play around with the source code and
modify it to your heart's content, then you run make on it after
configuring it for your machine. Not all that difficult at all. You
*do*, however, need to understand how to build complex projects using
make. And, alas, this is one thing that your Delphi and RosAsm
experience has not prepared you for.



Iam a windows user, so I prefer links to windows GPL projects for the time
beeing.

Most people writing GPL software hate Microsoft and back up their moral
system by *not* writing windows open-source software. :-) Of course,
there *is* quite a bit of Windows/GPL software out there, but most of
the stuff you're going to find is going to be written for Linux (or
Unix) first and ported to Windows. Still, however, you're going to need
to learn about MAKE.

BTW, I was able to port the generic versions of Flex and Bison to
Windows using the GNU deliverables. It was a lot of work (not something
that could be done in an hour), but it wasn't *that* hard. Most of the
problems were Microsoft's deviances from the C standard in VC and
problems with nmake.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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