Re: [fontforge-users] Announcing LibSpiro - version libspiro_beta.0.3.20150131

On February 9, 2015 12:55:10 PM luigi scarso wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Jose Da Silva <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > On February 9, 2015 09:50:47 AM luigi scarso wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > >> On 09/02/15 16:11, jb wrote:
> > >>> Jose Da Silva wrote:
> > >>>> Picking-up a Sun box is out of the question since I'm more
> > >>>> interested in reducing my computer gear. Adding an old
> > >>>> computer that runs about as fast as a modern smart phone
> > >>>> is not in my plans, and today's Sun is now a part of Oracle,
> > >>> 
> > >>> Up to you of course but a monoculture is at risk for complete and
> > >>> utter meltdown when the slightest misadventure strikes. A Sun box
> > >>> would be the cheapest avenue for an independent test .... if I
> > >>> were a sculptor I'd want to be able to work in wood, stone and
> > >>> metal but to each his own.
> > 
> > Understood, but to remain relevant in high-tech, I need to look
> > forwards, not look back. I looked at a new upcoming Oracle server a
> > few years ago, and it was Redhat plus a Xeon CPU. Yet, as fast as
> > these may be (with 4 or 8 cores), they still don't compare in speed
> > to a graphics card smurfing at number crunching with (100+ cores) in
> > the boinc crowd.
> > The future is multi-cores and threading tasks.
> > 
> > I take it that most problems are resolved now, except for adding C99
> > and providing a ./configure or rewording INSTALL?
> > 
> > Did the configure provided work okay? I'm uncertain what to expect
> > from a newer OS building a configure to run for an older OS on
> > another platform.
> > 
> > Will providing a ./configure branch be okay? vs adding in trunk/HEAD?
> > 
> > >> Compiling on a BSD and/or with clang may already go some way
> > >> toward lessening the risk of monoculture and may be easier/more
> > >> convenient to set up than a Solaris box.
> > >> 
> > >> Regards,
> > >> --
> > >> Matijs
> > >> 
> > >> Set up a freebsd virtualbox machine is really easy in ubuntu 14.04
> > > 
> > > and xfce is good enough if one also wants a practical GUI.
> > 
> > DOSBox and some Wine is enough for me - for now :)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > As I wish it were true...
> 
> I'm currently fighting to cross-compile pari/gp for Win64..almost a
> nightmare...
> 
> 
> Anyway
> 
> $>  autoreconf -i
> $>  automake --foreign -Wall
> 
> 
> 
> $> cat do-w64.sh
> ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=$(pwd)/build-w64
> ##  for sure
> make clean
> make
> make install
> 
> $> cat do-w32.sh
> ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=$(pwd)/build-w32
> ##  for sure
> make clean
> make
> make install
> 
> cross compile  libspiro as dll and static libs
> for windows 64bit and windows 32bit
> 
> (always under Ubuntu 14.04 64bit)


Worthwhile info.
Added it to README.md, which displays at bottom of page here:
https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro

If you see errors, enhancements, or wish to add other machines, seems like 
a quick-n-easy location to add them.

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