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Not to distract from your point but compiling something on Linux has always been a massive pain due to dependencies. I often have to run configure multiple tim
by koyote 9y ago
Not to distract from your point but compiling something on Linux has always been a massive pain due to dependencies.
I often have to run configure multiple times and hunt down the correct version of whatever library it needs before re-running it and finding yet another library that it can not find (it gets even worse if you actually have the library installed but it's not in the search path...)
- vetinari 9y agoCompiling something on Linux is a piece of cake, even with dependencies, compared to Windows. In Linux, the dependencies are just apt/dnf/yum away. In Windows, you have to build them, including their dependencies. There is no ./configure, no cmake config, it either has VS solution file (if you are lucky, it will even work with your version), or not. If you have the dependency library somewhere, you have to edit that project file tell the VS manually where it is. If you weren't lucky with an existing sln file, it's time to make your own. Reading README to learn about dependencies and running configure with some flags is fine, compared to that.