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

På Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:51:59 +0100, skrev randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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.

Why multiply a work to all the users and interessted viewers, when it can be made automatic. Isnt that what we have the computer for, doing the dirty work?

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. :-)

I rather think that free software, right on the windows desktop is a stronger short term strategy for the Free Software movement.

Actually its likly a MUCH stronger strategy.

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.

I cannot see how this relates to my query. I asked for links to software that somebody has actually downloaded and tested, and found working of the spot.

Cheers,
Randy Hyde


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