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Any Windows clients?

Dunderpate dunderpate at sdf.org

Wed May 20 21:59:08 BST 2020

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Hi there Nicole,

LOL, it's great to have a community of people that are willing to helpwith n00bs like me when it comes to vcpkg.

AFAIK, the issue in my case was with OpenSSL failing to compile (which Ieventually got past), and the naming of the gtk *.libs. After about ahalf-hour of various failures and fighting with my work computer'srestrictions, vcvarsall, and other stuff; I changed the name of the *.libfiles according to the instructions I was following, and then the linkerjust exploded with roughly a gazillion errors. A small tear ran down theside of my face and I moved on. Perhaps with enough caffeine and achatroom of pros, I might stand a chance :D

Thanks again for the pointers to the discord channel. Please do forgive myremark about vcpkg being "shenanigans". It just happened to be theproverbial straw that broke my back that day.

Christopher

FWIW, I'm on the vcpkg team so if anyone needs help with it you can always

reach out. Additionally, includecpp.org's discord has a #vcpkg channel a

few of us hang out on.

(somewhat unrelated but _shrug_)

Nicole

-------- Original Message --------

On May 19, 2020, 10:52, Dunderpate wrote:

Hi Andrew,

Fantastic! I'm much more familiar with Python than I am with rust and

all

the vcpkg shenanigans that were going on with castor. I'll give this a

shot and post a pic if it works.

Thanks again Andrew :D

Dunderpate

I just got mcross running, after struggling to get Castor to build

(even

with the instructions, I'm not sure what I'm missing :/)

https://sr.ht/~nhanb/mcross/

it's pretty straightforward: Python 3.7+, run "pip install mcross" and

then "mcross"

- Andrew

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Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:12:59 -0500

From: "Dunderpate" <dunderpate at sdf.org>

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Subject: Re: Any Windows clients?

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Il giorno gio 14 mag 2020 alle 13:29, Dunderpate

<dunderpate at sdf.org>

ha scritto:

I'm a big-time Linux user, bare-metal, and BSD guy. However, I'm

confined

to Windows for my day job :/ So, I was just wondering if anyone on

this

list knows of a Windows client floating around that I could use.

I didn't tried but I would say that Alrisha

(https://git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/alrisha) being pure Qt should run on

windows without any problem...

Hi there!

Thanks for the recommendation! I just had a chance to look into this

last

night and, unfortunately I'm not that comfortable creating a Qt

account

just to install the tooling required to run qmake :/ I might be

missing

something that allows me to bypass the account creation, but it's a

principle thing I guess LOL. The client itself seems nice enough

though,

and if they had pre-compiled builds I'd certainly use one of 'em.

Thanks again :D

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Dunderpate

-- Dunderpate