[cups.general] How to navigate the sources

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Mar 23 10:38:48 PDT 2012


No, only VC++ is supported for building the CUPS libraries on Windows. (and then primarily only for building ipptool and cupstestppd)


On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Tournie wrote:
> Thanks for clearing that up for me.  So I downloaded cups-1.6svn-r10360-source.tar (I can't recall if I took the bz2 or gz) and I've used 7-zip to unpack it down to the folder cups-1.6svn-r10360.
> 
> The INSTALL.txt file doesn't mention Windows, but if I get gcc and 'make' can I end up with the .lib and .dll files that I'll need?
> 
> 
>> If you really want to use the CUPS libraries on Windows then you want to download CUPS; either the current stable version or the latest SVN snapshot (if you are doing non-production stuff).
>> 
>> The Driver Development Kit is legacy from before CUPS 1.3 and is no longer needed; we still provide the old source download for people using CUPS 1.2.
>> 
>> The Windows Driver is just that - a PostScript driver for Windows that works with Samba to support Windows clients.  It does not include any of the development APIs.
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>> On Mar 23, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Tournie <tourney.email at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If I am looking at running CUPS on Windows and using that API, under the Download page there are a few options: there is the latest version "1.6svn-r10360", there are 3 links under "Windows Driver" and there are 3 links under "Driver Development Kit".
>>> 
>>> Which do I want?
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