Scott Ritchie wrote:
Then, the developer needs to write his own makefiles and hammer autoconf and stuff into working right. This is the hard part, and it's where I gave up when trying to port Miranda Instant Messenger with Winelib even though it worked in MinGW. There are many other open source Windows apps out there that I'd like to try porting (say, eMule), but they're currently all written in Visual Studio and getting Visual Studio support into Winelib has been on our perpetual todo list for some years now.
I use dev-c++ from http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html It has a very good dsw importer and makes a most simple MinGW makefile that can be used outside of dev-c++. Also on wine. But who wants to go outside, It is loaded with goodies. Code completion debugging class browser the works. It has only 2 flaws. That it doesn't use the Scintilla editor, and that it doesn't drink it's own soup, see, even though it is GPLed it is written in Delphi.
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