Win32 dependencies

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 18 16:42:27 EDT 2009


Quoting Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com>:

> I'm currently trying to build a more up-to-date version of webkit for 
> win32, hoping that some of the bugs that are affecting gnucash 
> (showing images on an invoice, print font size) have been fixed.
>
> I will also tackle pre-building some of the dependencies and zipping 
> up the file so that we don't need to rebuild them.  Derek, I assume 
> you would like them on sourceforge, not gnucash.org.  How should we 
> handle versioning?

Yeah, sf would be great.

> My proposal is to set up a dependencies folder.  Under it, a set of 
> folders, one per dependency (webkit, libxml, ...).  When I build a 
> dependency, I'll zip it up as dependency_version_win32.zip (e.g. 
> webkit_1.1.13_win32.zip) and put it into the webkit dependency folder.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking (a dependencies folder and then
subfolders...)

Sounds good to me.

Just need to make sure that we keep the dep sources around too.

> Phil

-derek

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