Re: [Planner Dev] Re: Planner win32

[Jani Tiainen <redetin luukku com>]

Michael Devenish kirjoitti:
> Hi Jani,
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Well, been busy since I got my new laptop and finally I've had time to 
> > get back to Planner, specially for win32 port of it.
> >
> > I've "bad news" for all. I suspect that it'll take very long before 
> > there exists native win32 version of Planner.
> >
> > Biggest reason is lack of suitable tools to produce windows version of 
> > libs needed by Planner and of course Planner itself.
> >
> > Still I'll continue support cygwin/X edition of Planner.
> >
> > If in future there is possibility build cygwin/X under eg. Visual 
> > Studio then it would change all...
> >
> > MinGW is otherwise great but it lacks suitable perl, and some other 
> > require tools don't build without perl XML::Parser.
> >
> > Contrary to this sad thing I'm prepared to start contributing on core 
> > app itself.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jani Tiainen
> >
> >  
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I've been following the discussions on the evolution win32 port at 
> sourceforge
> < http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=120820 >
> and they had the same problems regarding perl and MinGW when trying to 
> build with XML::Parser. One of the developers said to use ActiveState 
> ActivePerl
> < http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ >
> for libraries including XML::Parser, see following quote:
>
> "Get ActivePerl, install to C:/perl, and delete mingw/msys"s perl files, 
> and add this to your /etc/fstab:
> c:/perl /
> This seems to be working, and ActivePerl contains all the necessary libs 
> and all the other Perl modules that are quite common, all working for 
> Win32 perfectly".
>
> There are some other useful bits of information on porting to win32 in 
> the project mailing list.
> Hopefully a win32 port of Evolution will make porting Planner to win32 
> easier.

Thank you very much for information. ActivePERL is familiar to me, vut I 
couldn't get it working with msys last time  =). I'll take a look, since 
biggest (?) problem so far was this bloody XML::Parser perl library. 
Other libs are known to compile "out-of-box"

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Jani Tiainen