What tools/programs will I need to compile and build IB6. Obviously, I will
need MS VC, but what else?

Thanks,
Paul

----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Harrison <harrison@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>; <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Building IB6


> At 08:26 PM 7/27/00 +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> >I was pointed to this mailing-list from interbase.public.general. If it's
> >the wrong place for these kind of questions, please let me know.
>
> This is the right place.
>
> >Is there really no other way to make the build work other than somehow
> >already have the binaries you're trying to build (i.e. it's a a complete
> >deadlock situation)?
>
> Right now, that's the case. The preprocessor (gpre) generates C
> code that is largely system independent, so it's possible to cross-compile
> when porting to a new platform, though it make take some hand tweaking -
> or a lot, in the case of Cray.
>
> >The signal-to-noise ratio when building is really, *really*, bad. With
about
> >1-5 thousand (!) warnings per lib/dll/exe it's close to impossible to
find
> >the *real* problems. Not that I'd say that this amount of warnings isn't
a
> >real problem. :-)
>
> You're absolutely right.
>
>
> >And that brings me to the burning issue, patches. Where is one supposed
to
> >send these, and what format is preferred?
>
> Hmmm. Interesting problem. Apparently Borland didn't put up some of
> the pieces that you'd expect to see in an open source project - bug
> database, CVS ...
>
> Ann
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