Re: [AD] Patch: improved website stylesheet

["Trent Gamblin" <trent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, April 28, 2014 5:06 am, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Mon, April 28, 2014 4:59 am, Elias Pschernig wrote:
>> mingw64 is a compiler for 32 as well as 64 bit, the old mingw32 (which
>> is 32-bit only) just isn't really developed much right now. Also,
>> 32-bit binaries are limited to around 2GB of RAM. But again, the
>> reason for mingw64 is just that it's the most maintained fork right
>> now.
>>
>> And I agree, we unfortunately will need some cmake improvements along
>> the way. But the current build mostly is able to build binaries - so I
>> think we are in fact ready to setup VMs and so on. Which specific
>> feature of CMake we need for "proper binaries" are you referring to?
>
> I think the biggest issue is library naming and static/dynamic libraries.
> Allegro library naming should be fine as it is, but on Windows library
> names can vary depending where you get them from. IMO the best thing to do
> is use the latest source archives of each dependency and use the default
> names those give to the libraries. Sometimes static/dynamic have different
> names so account for that. For things we can't distribute, document what
> you need to do. For example you should build with the latest DirectX SDK.
> You'll need the platform SDK installed for MinGW and for audio you need to
> copy a few headers (sal.h and 1-2 related.)

Unless mingw64 has a sal.h replacement...