[cups.general] How to navigate the sources

[Michael Sweet]

I am saying that we currently only support building CUPS with VC++ on Windows.  Cygwin *might* work for building a static library, but there are enough differences that you will likely end up with something that doesn't work.


On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Tournie wrote:

> Wait, so there is no straightforward way to make a cups.lib/dll that I can build against and use for library calls, analagous to how it must work in Linux?  I've seen an older cups.lib for Windows.  Are you saying that someone had to do some heavy customization to get that to work?
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>> No, only VC++ is supported for building the CUPS libraries on Windows. (and then primarily only for building ipptool and cupstestppd)
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>> 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.
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>>> 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?
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>>>> 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).
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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".
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>>>>> Which do I want?
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