Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-17 Thread Zander Brown
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.

Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-17 Thread Vahid Bashiri via dia-list
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. On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:50 PM Andrey Repin via dia-list < dia-list@gnome

Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-12 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Zander Brown! >> I would prefer Cygwin. >> Even with the downsides of the platform, this may be a easier >> building experience. > Your free to use whatever you want, but Mark asked about Visual Studio > and MSYS2 is run in CI so is known to work (well it at least builds) Makes sense.

Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-12 Thread Zander Brown
> I would prefer Cygwin. > Even with the downsides of the platform, this may be a easier > building experience. Your free to use whatever you want, but Mark asked about Visual Studio and MSYS2 is run in CI so is known to work (well it at least builds) Zabder signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-12 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Zander Brown! > We only support meson (since maintaining multiple build systems is asking for > trouble imo) but > meson can be used with VS - > https://mesonbuild.com/Using-with-Visual-Studio.html - so you > could give that a go. > If it works it would be great to get it running in C

Re: How to compile dia on windows using Visual Studio

2020-10-11 Thread Zander Brown
Hey Mark I honestly have no idea if will work, I've tried to avoid traps like cleanups in the hope it might build but I'm not aware of anyone actually trying it (at least not in the last 5 years or so) We only support meson (since maintaining multiple build systems is asking for trouble imo) but