Re: Have you read the getting started recently?

tz wrote:

> It says I need to:
>
> Get BitPim source code
> Check out the BitPim code from CVS. I recommend checking it out to a 
> directory named c:\projects\bitpim or something similar on other 
> platforms. The cvs section has pointers to various graphical and 
> command line clients you can use.
>
> I don't have a c:\ path on linux, nor on Mac OS X, so I don't think 
> that will work. Some places give specific RPMs to get which are of no 
> help on Windows or Mac OS X. And there is no consistency to which 
> packages give specific platform instructions and which don't.
>
> I did read the section. Carefully. I tried following the instructions, 
> but it isn't always clear which piece is needed where, nor even how to 
> build or run from the build directory even if I have all the pieces.
>
> For example, the wx package seems to want to install where it wants, 
> but won't build right under windows. When it builds under my other 
> systems it still complains about not finding module wx. I don't know 
> why. I've spent hours and tried every combination I can think of. Many 
> of the other modules have similar problems.
>
> The one liner "get package X from Y", where Y is some random page for 
> the package which often doesn't contain any downloads, or may have 
> several versions with different features which I have no way of 
> knowing which is the right one, etc. is really of no help. I may have 
> all the pieces, but they might be the wrong version, they might not be 
> in the right place, they may not be configured properly, or I may need 
> to adjust something in my build environment, none of which I can 
> possibly know or easily figure out.
>
> If someone has a clean system and manages to get bitpim to build, I 
> would appreciate it if they would log the steps and exact things they 
> downloaded (and if they needed to build or just install and any 
> options required).
>
As a matter of fact, I did EXACTLY what was specified a couple of months 
ago, and built a development system on Windows XP with no problems.

Michael C.



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