Any Windows clients?

[Nicole Mazzuca]

Don't worry about it; building C++ is _always_ shenanigans 😉

Nicole


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On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 1:59 PM, Dunderpate <dunderpate at sdf.org> wrote:

> Hi there Nicole,
>
> LOL, it's great to have a community of people that are willing to help
> with n00bs like me when it comes to vcpkg.
>
> AFAIK, the issue in my case was with OpenSSL failing to compile (which I
> eventually got past), and the naming of the gtk *.libs. After about a
> half-hour of various failures and fighting with my work computer's
> restrictions, vcvarsall, and other stuff; I changed the name of the *.lib
> files according to the instructions I was following, and then the linker
> just exploded with roughly a gazillion errors. A small tear ran down the
> side of my face and I moved on. Perhaps with enough caffeine and a
> chatroom of pros, I might stand a chance :D
>
> Thanks again for the pointers to the discord channel. Please do forgive my
> remark about vcpkg being "shenanigans". It just happened to be the
> proverbial straw that broke my back that day.
>
> Christopher
>
> > FWIW, I'm on the vcpkg team so if anyone needs help with it you can always
> > reach out. Additionally, includecpp.org's discord has a #vcpkg channel a
> > few of us hang out on.
> > (somewhat unrelated but shrug)
> > Nicole
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > On May 19, 2020, 10:52, Dunderpate wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > Fantastic! I'm much more familiar with Python than I am with rust and
> > > all
> > > the vcpkg shenanigans that were going on with castor. I'll give this a
> > > shot and post a pic if it works.
> > > Thanks again Andrew :D
> > > Dunderpate
> > >
> > > > I just got mcross running, after struggling to get Castor to build
> > > > (even
> > > > with the instructions, I'm not sure what I'm missing :/)
> > > > https://sr.ht/~nhanb/mcross/
> > > > it's pretty straightforward: Python 3.7+, run "pip install mcross" and
> > > > then "mcross"
> > > >
> > > > -   Andrew
> > > >
> > > > ---- On Tue, 19 May 2020 11:13:04 -0400
> > > > gemini-request at lists.orbitalfox.eu wrote ----
> > > >
> > > > > Message: 9
> > > > > Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 10:12:59 -0500
> > > > > From: "Dunderpate" dunderpate at sdf.org
> > > > > To: "A protocol that is slightly more complex than gopher, but
> > > > > significantly simpler than HTTP" gemini at lists.orbitalfox.eu
> > > > > Subject: Re: Any Windows clients?
> > > > > Message-ID: fea0338c5bd0b17594fa5689ffcbc6d6.squirrel at mx.sdf.org
> > > > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> > > > >
> > > > > > Il giorno gio 14 mag 2020 alle 13:29, Dunderpate
> > > > > > dunderpate at sdf.org
> > > > >
> > > > > > ha scritto:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm a big-time Linux user, bare-metal, and BSD guy. However, I'm
> > > > > > > confined
> > > > > > > to Windows for my day job :/ So, I was just wondering if anyone on
> > > > > > > this
> > > > > > > list knows of a Windows client floating around that I could use.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I didn't tried but I would say that Alrisha
> > > > > > (https://git.sr.ht/~fabrixxm/alrisha) being pure Qt should run on
> > > > > > windows without any problem...
> > > > > > Hi there!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the recommendation! I just had a chance to look into this
> > > > > last
> > > > > night and, unfortunately I'm not that comfortable creating a Qt
> > > > > account
> > > > > just to install the tooling required to run qmake :/ I might be
> > > > > missing
> > > > > something that allows me to bypass the account creation, but it's a
> > > > > principle thing I guess LOL. The client itself seems nice enough
> > > > > though,
> > > > > and if they had pre-compiled builds I'd certainly use one of 'em.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks again :D
> > > > >
> > > > > ----------------
> > > > >
> > > > > Dunderpate
>
> --
>
> Dunderpate