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

[Michael Collins]

Adding to this... we really have only two people who are Windows gurus:
Jeff Lenk and Dave Kompel. Everyone else is Linux/Unix/Mac oriented. If
you're volunteering to help then that's awesome. I agree w/ Peter - start
w/ Jeff Lenk since he's pretty much the only person who "does it all" on
Windows. I'm sure he would be glad to have someone help. Also, talk to Ken
Rice - he's the main point man on doing new builds/releases. If you can
make it easy for him to get Windows binaries built up in some sort of
automated fashion then that would be extremely helpful.

Thanks!

-MC

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Peter Olsson <
peter.olsson at visionutveckling.se> wrote:

> Jeff Lenk is probably the best guy to talk to about this (jlenk on IRC).
>
> And yes, there are lots of warnings. However, they are from the third
> party libs, FS itself has a clean build. I've been using the Windows
> version for a couple of years, and it runs really good, so there is nothing
> to worry about really. I do agree though that it would be good (especially
> for new users) if the stable versions are available as compiled binaries. I
> personally prefer to build from git HEAD.
>
> /Peter
>
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> Skickat: den 26 september 2012 13:17
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> Ämne: [Freeswitch-dev] Why are Windows users so badly served - and what
> can I do to help?
>
> 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… :)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> - Niels
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