Re: [pcre-dev] Kudos on PCRE 7.2...

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Robert Roessler wrote:
> > I am sorry if I come across as frustrated, but the general lack of
> > transparency (read "posted RCs" or equivalent) has always seemed
> > unfortunate... also, I have in the past offered to help with your Windows
> > releases, which I think could have avoided a certain amount of
> > "unpleasantness" with the DLL build issues. Of course, I find the Windows
> > linker relatively easy to deal with, whereas I find gcc/ld insanely overly
> > complex... and I am still greatly appreciative of the help you gave me 7
> > months ago in that area. :)
>
> I take the blame. I remember you, of course. I should have been more
> pro-active and told you when the pcre-dev mailing list was set up.
> Apologies. I'm getting old and absent-minded. (I am retiring from my job
> at the end of September, though I intend to continue to work on PCRE for
> a little while longer.) Having said that, the change to the build
> system for 7.1 was inended to "regularize" things so that it was
> straightforward to build on Windows. As I know nothing about Windows, I
> am reliant on what other people tell me should be done. I think Daniel,
> if he joins in this thread, will extol the virtues of CMake for use on
> Windows.

Why don't you just build with mingw? It will work out of the box on
windows, and will solve your problem instantly. Is there a requirement
to use the microsoft compiler/linker?

Bob Rossi