Changes between Version 40 and Version 41 of CompileApp

Timestamp:

Apr 5, 2010, 5:27:39 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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CompileApp

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  * Configure your project to use ANSI strings rather than Unicode.
 
+=== MinGW and Dev-C++ ===
+
+If you can't or don't want to use Visual Studio to build applications,
+the easiest alternative is
+[http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html Dev-C++], an open-source development environment based on the GCC compilers.
+Use the MinGW compile option.
+
+The boinc/lib and boinc/api directories contains makefiles ('''Makefile.mingw''')
+for building the respective libraries.
+
+SETI@home uses Dev-C++ for its Windows build;
+you can get the project file
+[https://setisvn.ssl.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/seti_boinc/client/win_build/seti_boinc.dev here].
+
 === Cygwin ===
 
-[http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] is an alternative to Visual Studio for building Windows apps.
-In order to run a cygwin application from BOINC,
-you need to supply all the cygwin DLLs that the application requires
-in addition to the executable.
-You can get LISTDLLS from http://www.sysinternals.com/.
-It will tell you what DLLs a running executable has loaded.
-
-Note that Cygwin is GPL software.
-If you link to the cygwin DLL,
-then either your application has to be GPL as well,
-or you will have to buy a commercial license from Red Hat.
-
-TODO: develop a Makefile for building example_app under Cygwin.
-It can assume that the libraries in boinc/lib and boinc/api have already been built.
-Verify that _autosetup/configure/make work in boinc/.
-
+[http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin] may be another alternative for building Windows apps.
+There are several issues:
+
+ * If you build the API library directly, it will use use shared memory
+  to communicate with the BOINC client.
+  This won't work if you use the standard Windows client,
+  which uses memory-mapped files rather than shared memory.
+ * In order to run a cygwin application from BOINC,
+ you need to supply all the cygwin DLLs that the application requires
+ in addition to the executable.
+ You can get LISTDLLS from http://www.sysinternals.com/.
+ It will tell you what DLLs a running executable has loaded.
+ *  Cygwin is GPL software.
+ If you link to the cygwin DLL,
+ then either your application has to be GPL as well,
+ or you will have to buy a commercial license from Red Hat.
+
+However, it can be done.
 Information from CERN is [https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LHCAtHome/BoincPort here].
-
-{{{
-#!comment
-=== Dev-C++ ===
-
-[http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html Dev-C++] is an open-source development environment based on the GCC compilers.
-
-TODO: develop a project file for Dev-C++.
-It should be similar to the Visual Studio project file
-(i.e. it should include what it needs from boinc/).
-
-SETI@home used Dev-C++ for its Windows build; you can get the [http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/seti_boinc/client/win_build/Attic/seti_boinc.dev?rev=1.1.2.23;content-type=text%2Fplain.dev project file] on SETI CVS repository. (''outdated'').
-}}}
 
 === Symbol Stores ===