[cairo] Once again... VS.NET

[Hans Breuer]

On 05.09.2005 10:20, Salevsky, Sascha wrote:
> Maybe this help others building under VS.NET....
> 
> You need some stdint.h file. Paul Hsieh has a nice one:
> http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/stdint.h
> 
With my recent patch the requirement of stdint.h would be gone
for pixman. It is already gone for cairo since quite some time.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-September/005247.html

> Maybe this can be included with the distribution?
> Don't know about the license...
> 

> Another word on pixman. The mmx-path is a bit to tightly
> coupled to gcc imho. For instance VS.NET don't
> understand the __include__ keyword. Maybe a little
> bit more define-magic is needed here. The
> detectCPUFeatures() is also gcc inline assembly...
> 
You are not supposed to (dont need to) build this file when
building with an incompatible inline assembler. AFAIK there
is much more 'wrong' in that file than just the __inline__
keyword.

> Building the auxilary libraries like freetype, libpng, and
> zlib is no problem, as they come along with some nice
> project files.
> 
> Would be nice to have an out-of-the-box build in the
> next distribution. We don't need project files strictly,
> as VS.NET comes with nmake... nmake compatible
> makefiles could be a possible solution. Maybe adding
> some little batchfiles that first run vcvars32.bat and then
> nmake would be enough.
> 
Again see the other thread :
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-September/005247.html

> The world is not all gcc :-D
I know.

	Hans

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