Re: [CsMain] A helping hand

Denis Washington <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.crystalspace.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/07/2010 04:16 PM, Mike Gist wrote:
> On 7 February 2010 14:40, res <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     > I also wanted to investigate that, especially SDK builds (it is very
>     > unfortunate that there are no binary SDKs currently, especially on
>     > Windows where building is not that easy).
>
>     Really? I always kind of thought building on Windows was comparatively
>     easy ... no scratching together all dependencies (there's a single
>     package for that), and either open up the VC project and hit it or, in
>     case of MinGW, 'configure' etc. (what you have to do with about every
>     other open source project).
>     I know some projects/dependencies which are a _much_ bigger hassle to
>     set up ;p
>
>
> Yeah, building on windows is a piece of cake.
> We don't have SDK builds because nobody does them, not because it's 
> difficult :P
>

For people who just quickly want to try out Crystal Space or run  a few 
demos, building from source is still a pretty high overhead. Even if it 
is as simple as hell, the compilation time alone might turn a lot of 
potential Crystal Space users off. This might also be a reason why 
Ogre3D, with their supplied all-in-one binary SDKs, has such a big 
following of users.

Regards,
Denis

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation
Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business
Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts
Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com

_______________________________________________
Crystal-main mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/crystal-main
Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.