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["Danilo Uccelli" <danucc@...>]

2008/8/27 David <mailings@...>:
> Please ignore Dick's post.
>
> Kicad needs all the help it can get if it is to be succesful and be
> on par with commercial packages - and any extra development platforms
> supported are a bonus.
>
> So thanks for the effort - keep it up!
>
> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "manneveru" <manveru@...> wrote:
>>
>> Ekhm... I feel offended a little... Visual C++ is a compiler good as
>> any other may be. But if don't like it...
>>
>> I am currently working on building Windows version by mingw in
>> simplest possible way (less steps than current "manual" put in
> readme)
>> and without MSYS.
>>
>> Michal
>>
>> --- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dick Hollenbeck" <dick@> wrote:
>> >
>> > What is visual C++?
>> >
>> > And who cares?
>> >
>> > Dick
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8/24/08, manneveru <manveru@> wrote:
>> > > Hi Developers!
>> > >
>> > > I finally made it - it took over 12 hours, but works. Tutorial
> is
>> > > published here: http://manveru.pl/node/3 (need some formatting
>> tweaks).
>> > >
>> > > But the code itself needed some improvements and corrections.
> So I am
>> > > attaching a patch to the code and one additional file which
> solves
>> > > problem with missing round() function in Visual C++ libraries
> (well
>> > > known problem in The Net :-).
>> > >
>> > > The patches are uploaded here:
>> > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/files/Visual%20C%
> 2B%2B/
>> > > as I do not know how to add attachments to the posts.
>> > >

Hello the group,

OK, Dick has been a few rough...;-)

But in my opinion, it is important that an open source program like
Kicad remain compilable with open source tools.

Visual C++ Express, even if it is free, it is not open source and nor
it is multi platform.

Just my 5 cents...

Danilo Uccelli
CH-2400 Le Locle
danucc@...