[ODE] documentation initiative

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Can you send me details offline?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Megan Fox" <shalinor at circustent.us>
To: <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: RE: [ODE] documentation initiative


> I'm afraid I had some significant linking issues with your VC6 workspace
> that didn't go away after running the bat files.  I had to use make to get
a
> library that would actually link up without error to my app.
>
>
> ... that aside, has anyone here used The Nebula Device 2
> (http://nebuladevice.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Nebula/WebHome)?
> Both revisions of its buildsys (as well as the buildsys for Nebula 1)
> operate through TCL, and generate all necessary workspaces for all
platforms
> when the TCL is run, using current sources and easy-to-update .bld spec
> files for the various component packages that make up the library.
>
> Something like this has the advantage of easy cross-platform maintenance,
> since you only modify the one set of bld files, and it removes the need
for
> specific linux/windows/etc maintainers beyond someone to fix the bugs in
the
> build system as they crop up.  I'm sure it would be something of a bitch
to
> get working at first, but it's something you would (in theory) only need
to
> write once, and from then on only update the single set of cross-platform
> build def files - as compared to ongoing work to keep VC6 workspaces/build
> guides/make files/etc all up to date.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> -Megan Fox
>
> > Guys, "there should be a VC workspace in CVS"??  Well there is -
> > mine!  Did
> > you miss my recent posts about it??
> >
> > I understand the frustration getting ODE to work the first time - I did
> > manage to get it to work on win using the configurator at the time, but
it
> > was messy and long winded (and things like 'you have to manually
> > create the
> > lib dir or it will fail mysteriously' don't help matters).
> >
> > That's why I pushed to have my workspace right in the ODE root, in \VC6.
> > I'm not familiar with other platforms, but adding similar setups where
> > appropriate for other compilers is the right thing to do IMO.
> >
> > I also think that pre-compiled binaries aren't really that helpful.
Why?
> > Because official ODE releases tend to be seriously out of date,
> > and so most
> > people sooner or later want a CVS build - if they can't build it
> > themselves,
> > well, they're screwed.  The answer is simple, maintained compiler
setups,
> > not binaries (although they can be usefull to get started).
> >
> > With my workspace, all you do is:
> >
> > 1) setup the include/lib paths
> > 2) run a batch file (to select float/double, trimish on/off support).
> >
> > (as documented in the ReadMe file).  That's it.
> >
> > BTW, Russ, please include it in the next official release - it's
> > stable and
> > will avoid a lot of the complaints.
>
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