Re^2: Bumping nodes for further comment.

Yup, that was beginning to be my opionion of it too. The case in point is that compiling things under win32 is highly variable, and I wanted to use a notorious example (i.e. installing Gtk2) as it highlighted most, if not all, the usual suspects. A tutorial really needs to be entirely deterministic in it's outcome, and that, I fear, is beyond any Windows module compiling sequence.

OTOH it has shown that the compile environment is complet, it's just that the Makefiles need tweaking.

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Re^3: Bumping nodes for further comment. by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 09, 2008 at 10:03 UTC
Then why not splitting up your node in two: one about setting up the compiling environment and one about the practical Gtk2 Makefiles issue? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James	[reply]
Re^4: Bumping nodes for further comment. by Bloodrage (Monk) on Mar 09, 2008 at 20:28 UTC
That's not a bad idea, they could reference each other to some degree. One would be about the compiler environment, the other about buggering around with Makefiles. The one I have is a bit muddled with having to deal with them both and doesn't entirely cover 'setting up'.	[reply]


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