Hello Johan. > > > [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/INSTALL > > > > [2] > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r59a30aabaab7bf69effa909b331eaa177418325280ea25859e8fa294%40%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E > > There was another tangent from that last mail-thread, that for some > reason isn't shown together with the original thread (neither in my > gmail client nor in lists.aparche.org when you open the threaded view > of that post). Referencing it here for completeness: > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9792f252fb45ec94eb188689ea76d3594224c228a595aae4ddb592a7%40%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E > > I'm afraid I have lost momentum a bit, so these bits and pieces are > the most recent information about the Windows build (mainly of the > dependencies) we have right now AFAIK. I think a first step might be > to go through these notes again, test them on a new setup, and > consolidate them in our documentation (and from there maybe work on an > updated script that can do part of the work for you, like [3] used to > do at some point). >
That's exactly where I am. Starting from a clean Windows box, I can go through all this and get a list of manual instructions, document those, and that becomes the template to automate. Justcurious, for windows development, is it Visual Studio, or ported Gnu compliers etc? > > BTW: since that thread I've started another build of the dependencies, > for 64-bit building on Windows (starting with httpd etc). I have some > scrappy notes, but the gist is that I started with a CMake build for > httpd (after googling a bit), which went very well, but then ran > aground because the SVN build expects some apr and apr-util artifacts > in other places ... so I had to repeat the apr and apr-util builds > with the VS "sln" or "vcxproj" files (after jumping through some > hoops) to get the needed artifacts for the SVN build. This was quite > tragic because the cmake build of httpd was so easy. It might be > worthwhile to investigate making the SVN build on Windows more > flexible so that it can link with a cmake-only-built httpd (with apr > and apr-util). Anyway, I don't have time right now to dig into it > myself, so I'm just throwing it out here as a suggestion. > > All help is very welcome :-). Be it with the Windows build, building > on Synology, or something else. > > [3] > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/dev/build-svn-deps-win.pl Thanks so much. Work is insanely busy for Covid, but I foresee some time coming. RIght now, I'm cycle-stealing time... trying to read all this. > > > -- > Johan >
