[aspell-devel] Re: VS 2003 Projects

[Kevin Tew]

I wasn't suggesting a fork,
How does KevinA envision Windows Support?

For MSYS:
I build just fine with a few patches that I'm going to submit.
It uses the standard autoconf/automake system aspell already uses

For CYGWIN:
I don't build this configuration ( I might start soon.)
but I suggest that is also use the standard autoconf/automake system 
aspell already uses

For Visual C++, VisualStudio:
I like Visual studio project files, but I hate to maintain them.
A set of nmake specific makefiles are just as bad.

I was thinking a perl script that would read the automake makefile.am's
and would generate either VC6 or VS.NET2003 project files and the 
necessary settings.h
Maintainance would still be required but to a lesser degree.

KevinT

Hi KevnT,

> I have three ways to build aspell, VC workspace/project files,
> BCB make file, cygwin make file. Only the VC makes a dll, the
> rest just make a static library.
> I sent KevinA my VC files for Aspell6. He posted them to this
> mailing list. Maybe you can search the archives?
> I'm trying to bring make one source that is portable. There
> doesn't seem to be a good reason why there should be more then
> one source.
> Personally, I like hand crafted makefiles. For Windows
> evironments, there is enough consistency that you can depend on
> one file. YMMV. The nice thing about hand crafted makefiles is
> you can generally makes sense of them.
> I don't support forking. If you want to do work with the current
> version of aspell in windows, you might ask KevinA to accept my
> patches.
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