Edmund Wong wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>> Aside from our INSTALL file, is there a baby-step-by-baby-step guide
>> to building Subversion, and it's dependencies on Windows? About every
>> six months, I try, but get frustrated after about 2 hours of fussing
>> with apr or zlib or openssl or something else. A very simple, very
>> thorough document would be very useful.
>>
>>
>
> I think that would be very useful. It certainly would be interesting
> (experimental wise) to see how Subversion is compiled under Windows.
> Since the majority of my time is spent in Windows, it'd be another
> good step in increasing Subversion's dev. exposure.
>
Yah well... the real trouble with Windows is that you don't just have
DLL hell, you also have runtime hell -- practically every version of
MSVC came with a new C runtime that was incompatible with any other
version in very fundamental ways, and other compilers (used-to-be
Borland, MinGW/gcc, etc.) are incompatible in other ways. This makes
providing binary dev packages for external dependencies a real pain, and
trying to build 'em all as part of the SVN build is an even bigger pain.
It doesn't help that we added (at least) serf and sqlite dependencies
since I last did any Windows development ... and the way we pick up BDB
through APR on Windows is, frankly, a bit of a horrible nightmare.
(APR-2's scons build should make this bit slightly less sticky.)
Oh, I just got this marvellous idea: let's put "New and Polished Windows
Build and Packaging" into the SoC projects for next year -- not that it
can realistically be done in 3 months (no-one can rewrite Windows that
fast), but it's worth a try. :)
-- Brane
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