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IUP seems cool in theory, but in practice, I've never even been able to compile/install it, despite trying multiple times over the years! Unfortunately the bui

IUP seems cool in theory, but in practice, I've never even been able to compile/install it, despite trying multiple times over the years! Unfortunately the build system seems to be mostly of the "Works great on the author's system!" sort... >< I always try a bit to hack around the issues, but the problems have always exceeded my "oh this is too annoying, I'll try again next year" threshold (part of the problem being that it's an unusual build system, not just a few Makefiles, so it's less familiar).

eric_bullington 14y ago
I just noticed your comment, so sorry for the belated reply. I just wanted to mention that the tecgraf, makers of IUP, has thankfully simplified their build system -- no more custom build system. Also, they've started releasing pre-built binaries for all major OSs, including Linux and OSX. So now it's as easy and downloading a file and running sudo ./install. And if you want to build it yourself, it's as simple as running a few make files (make; make install each for the IUP, CD, and IM libraries). But absolutely, the first time I tried to use IUP a few years ago, I couldn't get it build due to the complexity of the build system. Fortunately, that's all changed now.