[Freeswitch-dev] Why are Windows users so badly served - and what can I do to help?

[Christopher Rienzo]

You could check out #freeswitch and meet the Windows FS devs and users.
 The devs could give guidance about what sort of patches would be
acceptable.  Just be patient if they don't respond instantly.

The gcc build of FreeSWITCH is set to fail on warnings, so the project devs
do take that sort of thing seriously.  Unfortunately, it is a lot of work
to make a build warning-free for all platforms/compilers.

Chris



On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Niels Thomsen <
niels.thomsen at fentechnology.co.uk> wrote:

> To me and my software engineering colleagues, one of the great things
> about FS is that it is available on Windows.  But I often feel a bit left
> out… J****
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> For instance, the download site doesn’t appear to have the stable builds
> (e.g. 1.2.3) available for download pre-built.  Only the unstable head of
> git built weekly.****
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> Also, the pre-built installer doesn’t allow me to select an install
> directory, and is unaware of modern Windows install hierarchies.  This
> means you either have to run as administrator or copy the installed files
> out of there after install.  Eurgh.****
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> I can build it myself of course, and have done so.  But the build has
> literally hundreds of warnings, so can I trust it?  My day-time job is as a
> software engineer in a ‘no warnings’ environment, where code cannot be
> checked in if it generates warnings, so that’s a bit of a culture shock.  I
> haven’t tried building the linux build to see if this is a VS2010 issue.**
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> But rather than moan about it, I’d like to help.  I’d like to sort out the
> installer, for instance, so it is brought up to date and can install on the
> latest OSs without kludges.  But I’d also like to see it being used to
> generate stable Windows pre-builds at the end of it - which would
> presumably be done by someone looking after the download site?  So where do
> I start?  Who do I speak to?****
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> - Niels****
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