Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

[Zander Brown <zbrown gnome org>]

On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 13:40 +0330, Vahid Bashiri via dia-list wrote:

I have done it with MSVS 6.0 years ago. If I remember correctly there is a makefile you set the path to the visual studio compiler in it and run make. I remember it was working perfectly. You need VS 6.0 command line tools.

Things have changed a bit since then, Dia hasn't used Autotools (or make) for some time now and different deps (notably graphene and more recently the switch to python3)

Given VS6 is 20+ years old (and pre-C99....) I'd be rather impressed if that works (or even runs on supported Windows), I'd imagine at least 2008 would be needed

Of course until someone tries we will never know, we do have 2017 available in CI  (https://gitlab.gnome.org/creiter/gitlab-ci-win32-runner-v2) but AFAIK no project actually uses it (yet?)

Zander

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