[Nel] Announce: NeL 0.1 is officially out

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:17:13 +0100

Hello to all !
+I just want to share some of my recent hints on building NeL for Win32
+platform with MC VC++ 6.0
+(Sorry  for  experienced  developers  familiar  with Win32 development
+environment,  may  be someone else like me usually do work primarily under
+UNIX and very seldom under Win32)
+
+*** STLPort ***
+First  problem  is  building  STLPort.
+(first big problem is the size - You  should  have  a  plenty  of  free space on
+hard drive. After building, STLPORT occupies 377946112 bytes)
+For some reasons or other nmake
+doesn't  work for me as expected (could be what Win32 also hate me as I
+hate Win32 ;)) It reports a lot of errors and exit.
+To  solve  this problem you can do File->Open STLport-4.0\src\vc6.mak and
+then do Build->build  stlport.exe
+Finally, after 30 minutes of hard work (PIII500/256), you'll have .lib & .dll & .pdb
+files   located   at  STLport-4.0\lib  Manually copy .lib (and I think
+.pdb  too)  to  VC default \lib location and don't forget to copy .dll
+files to some place where they could be found at runtime.
+
+*** FreeType 2 ***
+You need GNU Make 3.77 Link at FreeType site is broken
+Grab it from ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/freetype/contrib/win32/gnumake-win32.zip
+or any other place you want
+(http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/cgi-bin/search?form=medium&query=gnumake-win32.zip&doit=Search&type=Case+insensitive+multiple+substrings+search&hits=50&matches=&hitsprmatch=&limdom=&limpath=&hidepackages=on&hidedistfiles=on&hidefreebsd=on&hideopenbsd=on&hidenetbsd=on&hidelinux=on&f1=Count&f2=Mode&f3=Size&f4=Date&f5=Host&f6=Path&header=none&sort=none&trlen=20)
+You   should  have both path to GNU make and path to VC++ binaries as well
+to be included into your PATH environment variable
+next do:
+make setup visualc
+make
+copy freetype-2.0\obj\freetype.lib to VC++ default \lib location
+and  also  copy  freetype-2.0\include\freetype directory itself  to VC \include
+directory (just to save some clicks and typing while building NeL)
+
+To be continued ...
+
+PS.  Many  thanks to Paul Oakenfold and his wonderful music which save
+me from going madness while working under MS Windows :))
+-- 
+Dim Segebart                         mailto:zager@teleaction.de
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