Re: [tdf-discuss] NMake vs MinGW

2013-04-28 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Thanks for the clarification as this has given me a better understanding in terms of the build setup used by LO. My question now becomes why is it so hard to get a proper build environment setup for buidling LO on windows, as well as it being easier to break out of all the platforms supported. O

Re: [tdf-discuss] NMake vs MinGW

2013-04-28 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Jonathan, *, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > Rainer what i want to understand is why use an external build tool when > there is an equivalent to make built directly into visual studio. You are completely missing the point here. The default build /does/ use Visual S

Re: [tdf-discuss] NMake vs MinGW

2013-04-28 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
Wouldnt using the Ms Compiler for windows builds be less of a nightmare and less breakage occuring then using mingw? On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure < jbf.fa...@sud-ouest.org> wrote: > Le 22/04/2013 19:46, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : > > Rainer what i want to understand is w

Re: [tdf-discuss] NMake vs MinGW

2013-04-28 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 22/04/2013 19:46, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : > Rainer what i want to understand is why use an external build tool when > there is an equivalent to make built directly into visual studio. think its > time for me to fire up the win 8 box and run nmake from command line and > see if that does anyt