Re: [libcvd-members] libcvd cvd/convolution.h cvd/cpu_hacks.h cvd/di...

[Edward Rosten]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Gerhard Reitmayr wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Let me know, if you have any problems with any of these changes. I will
> try to fix them ASAP. I am going to use this over the summer for some
> Linux/OSX/Win32 cross platform development, hopefully this will make it
> stable and useful.

I don't know if this is helpful, but you can link mingw compiled stuff 
against normal windows stuff. That's why libCVD supports mingw at the 
moment. That said, I ported it, but I didn't do any of the other work on 
Windows.

The main benefit seems to be allowing ./configure to work under windows 
and pick up whatever libraries you have without editing config files.

I believe that this went via static libraries as well. Unlike cygwin, you 
don't need mingw installed on machines you want to move the executables 
to. As a further benefit it is possible to cross compile some programs 
from the comfort of a Linux machine. Even stranger is when you have wine 
installed and the cross host can run the target's execuatables. That 
confused me and ./configure for a while :-)

In theory, it ought to be possible to specify the commandline visual 
studio compiler instead of gcc. That said, the script would probably get 
the flags all wrong. I suppose one could write a flag translation 
wrapper...


-Ed