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["Joel Pitt" <joel.pitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gustavo,

Not sure how busy you are with other things, but it'd be immensely
appreciated if you could assist Ari with the Windows build process so
that he can help us out with PLN.

I'd do so myself but unfortunately it's been so long since I developed
in Windows that I'd as likely steer him wrong than help!

Thanks,

J

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Ari Heljakka
<ari.heljakka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Gustavo,
>
> I run into problems at CMake dependency resolution stage. I made complete
> video docs of the whole process so please take a look.
>
> You'll find my problem (strange dependencies, Python, GSL etc.) at the end
> (around 10:00) of
>
> http://www.dreambroker.fi/w/fe4145813
>
> which is a sequel to the less-exciting
>
> http://www.dreambroker.fi/w/654839475
>
> These videos and their forthcoming sequels may be useful to attach to the
> documentation. I'm sure that seeing how these things are done in practise
> will be useful. Also, for many of these libs, there's a large number of
> alternative downloads, and in fact I am not sure that my selection was
> correct either.
>
> (Of course, they'll be OS-specific)
>
> -A
>
> Gustavo Machado Campagnani Gama wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 18:46 +1200, Joel Pitt wrote:
>>
>>> OpenCog should run on windows. Some people have worked on porting
>>> opencog (I forget who)
>>
>> I'm the one supposed to keep the system building on all platforms and
>> distros. But I'm afraid the Windows & MacOS platforms are not
>> high-priority tasks right now so don't be surprised if once in a while
>> the build breaks. I try to test every large patch I push on Windows
>> first, but I'm not sure if the others do the same.
>>
>>>> I wonder if the Windows project/makefile is being maintained, or was it
>>>> just
>>>> a temporary experiment? (I didn't complete my attempt at it yet because
>>>> I
>>>> was told I have to install n+1 separate libs first.)
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't avoid manually installing and configuring the
>> dependencies, as -- to the best of my knowledge -- the windows platform
>> doesn't provide any mechanisms to handle this. But, as Joel pointed out,
>> the README.win32 file provides instructions and links to assist you with
>> this.
>>
>> I was thinking about creating a convenience ZIP file with the libraries
>> and headers of the required opencog dependencies (Expat & co, CSockets,
>> OpenSSL, CxxTest, Boost, PThreads-win32 and STLPort), but I was afraid
>> that there might be some legal implications.
>>
>> Does anyone know what are the rules concerning the distribution of
>> binaries for the most popular OSS licenses (assuming the source code
>> hasn't been modified)?
>>
>> --
>> Gustavo
>>
>>
>
>
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