Re: [Gretl-users] Building gretl under windows: volunteers?
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Very limited only, I have mingw (not cygwin) installed and built
something successfully by following
exact instructions. Due to the translation job I also have the cvs-repository here, so I
could try
if you provide those instructions.
But what exactly would the purpose be? You guys seem very successful at cross-compiling
for Windows,
no?
Sorry, I wasn't quite clear. The purpose is not to have a windows
executable; we've got that. The purpose is assembling a recipe for
compiling the source under windows.
Suppose you only use windows and there's something you'd like to change in
the source (recent example: "exogenous" vs "deterministic" in VARs).
That's a trivial change, so you think "Instead of bugging Allin, I'll do
it myself". You spot the line(s) to change, you change it, and then what?
If you can't compile, you have no way of checking if your changes have the
effects you wanted or, worse, break something. So eventually, your patch
sits idle.
Since the majority of our users use windows, I think that would be a
sizeable step forward. (It'd be better still if the majority used linux,
but I digress... and using win is a crime that contains its own punishment
anyway)
Riccardo `Jack' Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
jack(a)dea.unian.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti