- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 05:54:02 -0400
- To: "Lynn Kasdorf" <lkasdorf@pressroom.com>, <www-lib@w3.org>
At 00:31 9/29/98 -0400, Lynn Kasdorf wrote: >I use Microsoft C++5. I have found what appears to be the source files, but >no instructions on how to compile the libraries. There is a make file, but >how do I use it? NMAKE does not understand it. You have not done your homework. If you had read http://www.w3.org/Library/ then you would immediately have found a pointer to the installation instructions for libwww on Unix and Windows http://www.w3.org/INSTALL.html it also says that because providing makefiles for Windows is almost impossible then it takes some patience. >The W3C site is full of minutiae regarding various options, but nary a scrap >of instruction on what files to download, and how to compile them and how to >make a simple program. Again, this information is also readily available at http://www.w3.org/Library/Distribution.html as well as plenty of sample applications http://www.w3.org/Library/User/Applications.html >There is lots of discussion of the CVS source (of course it doesn't really >say what this is- I assume it is some sort of version control system). I >have no interest in adding to the libwww code. I just want to write a very >simple program with it! With that attitude I can hardly see how you can expect to get a lot back from sending any mail to this list. >Isn't there some way that I can simply download linkable libraries or DLL's >without having to struggle through inscrutable documentation and compile the >whole doggone source? You can actually get a binary version of the libwww compiled for Win32 as part of the Web Commander http://www.w3.org/WinCom/ Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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