CDex Open Source

[Calum]

I have been using this excellent audio encoder frontend for windows for a good while now called CDex. It is open source, on sourceforge so i thought i would download the source code (the binaries are windows only you see) and compile it in linux myself, since i prefer it to GRip. i got the code but what? it looks like a bunch of C++ stuff but how do i begin compiling? there's no makefile, no instructional stuff to help me, can somebody who doesn't mind downloading 3Mb of stuff please also download the source code for this and have a look at it please? it can be got from http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/ ad if yr interested in the project itself then do look at http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/ and read all about it.

Any help much appreciated, ta......

[flap]

You want to build a Linux application... from windows sources? If that's what you mean then it can't be done.

[Calum]

windows sources?

i was under the impression that c++ was a unix language? i was also under the impression that open source meant the stuff was portable. otherwise what's the point? i could not tell you if these were 'windows sources' or not, which is why i ask people to download them (which should not be a big deal for cable users and so on) and hae a look.

however, correct me if i am wrong on any point please. i am interested in more than 'it can't be done'. Why can't it? come on!

[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[flap]

There's no such thing as a 'Unix programming language'. If it were how could Windows applications be developed in it? And obviously the sources are for Win as the application is for Windows. It's true that you could take C/C++ source for a basic console app that used no platform dependent code (API calls) and compile it for either Windows/Unix with no alteration, but the application you're talking about has a GUI frontend, which is obviously Win specific.
If Windows source could just be taken and recompiled for Unix with no alteration there would be, well, a hell of a lot more apps for Linux/Unix.

And as for portability being 'the point' of open source, are you shitting?

That app can certainly be ported, but it would take a lot of work.

[ August 31, 2002: Message edited by: flap ]

[jtpenrod]

It might be possible to compile and run that app on Linux. It depends on what was used to write it. Qt, FOX, and wxWindows (I think?) can be used to write apps that'll run on either platform with nothing more than a recompile. Take a look at the header files, the *.h ones. See if there are any lines that read: #ifdef WIN32, etc., #endif (or #ifdef UNIX, etc, #endif). If there are, then you've got something that can be compiled to run on Linux. All you'll need to do is get the right libs and you're good to go. And if there aren't, then it's SOL (either that or reverse engineer the sucker)
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[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

[Calum]

ok! now this is the sort of answer i wanted! so as i thought, any graphical frontend must be specific to the gui. also, that remark about a

[flap]

Yes most of the work would be on the GUI, but that isn't the only OS-specific code in there. There are API calls, use of Win-specific features such as the registry etc.

But are you serious in suggesting the only reason to make software free and open is to allow portability?

[choasforages]

winemaker

it may or maynot work, give it a shot, and be prepared to play for days to try and get it to work, best of luck

[Calum]

what's winemaker? i suspect it is a linux project which uses wine code to compile 'windows sources' for use on a linux system?

i am afraid i don't tend to keep up with wine stuff since hey, i have winME when i need it (ok except it fails at the worst times!) and i am on dialup so cannot download new versions all the time (most recent wine version i have is 2 years old!)

thanks for comments though.....

[Kintaro]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
It might be possible to compile and run that app on Linux. It depends on what was used to write it. Qt, FOX, and wxWindows (I think?) can be used to write apps that'll run on either platform with nothing more than a recompile. Take a look at the header files, the *.h ones. See if there are any lines that read: #ifdef WIN32, etc., #endif (or #ifdef UNIX, etc, #endif). If there are, then you've got something that can be compiled to run on Linux. All you'll need to do is get the right libs and you're good to go. And if there aren't, then it's SOL (either that or reverse engineer the sucker)
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[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

 Use the Wine Devel Liabarys

[flap]

Calum; are you not using Mandrake 8.2 or another fairly recent distro? Why don't you have a more recent version of WINE?

[Kintaro]

The ability to destroy a operating system is nothing compared to the power of the source

[Calum]

flap, i have most of the first two CDs of the download version of mandrake 8.2. I think there's a lot of stuff i don't have compared to the full version, however i still have thousands of things i haven't used yet!

my version of wine is contemporary to red hat 7.0.

[KernelPanic]

Calum, why o why, have you moved to london?

[foobar]

Hm ? Calum moved to london ??