Re: compiling with win32 mscv6

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 00:23 +0200, Andreas Owen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build dia because I want to make some uml2-extensions but 
> I'm not getting far. I'm new to C so I could use some help and would be 
> greatful.
>
>
> Following steps I haven't succeded to do according to the Dokumentation 
> (compiling dia for win32):
>
> 13. Add LIBART_CFLAGS to make.msc
>
> 14. Download 
> http://uml.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dia-installer/dia_extra_src_msvc_dia_0.94-pre1.zip 
> and unzip to $TOP.   (I downloaded dia-0.94-pre1-msvc.zip but it didn't 
> have much in it.)

For your first attempts at compiling, use the release sources (0.95.1,
or CVS tag DIA_0_95_1) rather than CVS, then you're less likely to run
into problems caused by our half-finished exteriments.  Other than that,
Hans will have to help you on compilation details.

-Lars