Re: Skencil for Windows packaged

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Hi,

Actually Skencil can be built with MinGW without any rint hacks. I
submitted a patch that makes it easy to develop Skencil on Windows.
When that patch is applied to CVS I think that we should announce the
Windows version. Here is the news item. 

--- mainpage.sgml.old   Tue Nov 18 20:12:27 2003
+++ mainpage.sgml       Tue Nov 18 20:24:32 2003
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
<p> 

<newslist>
+       <newsitem date="2003-11-18">
+         Windows version available
+         <newsbody>
+           Joonas Paalasmaa has done a
+           <href url="http://speedloop2000.com/skencil/";>Windows
+           version</> of Skencil's development branch.
+       </newsitem>
+
      <newsitem date="2003-11-01">
        New Gallery Images
        <newsbody> 



- Joonas 

Joonas Paalasmaa writes:
> I think that we should make Skencil's CVS version buildable on Windows 
> before announcing the Windows binary. Thus people can start doing Skencil 
> development on Windows immediately. I have created a Distutils setup.py 
> file that takes care of building the extensions and creating the windows 
> installer. Should we try to get rid of the current non-Distutils setup.py? 
> I addition, the rint problem has to be solved somehow. 
>
> Using the define for Windows is one solution:
> #define rint(i) ( (i-floor(i)<0.5) ? floor(i) : ceil(i) )  
>
> It is, however, not the best solutions, because it does not conform to
> the rint definition, and because i is evaluated twice. 
> Bernhard Reiter writes:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:55:05PM +0200, Joonas Paalasmaa wrote:
> > > Now that we have a development version working on Windows, shouldn't we
> > > somehow advertise it on Skencil's web site?
> > Yes, we should. 
> > The fastest way to get this done, is to produce a patch so that Bernhard 
> > or myself can directly
> > drop it in, when we have a couple of minutes time.