Re: [IMP-dev] Policy for versions of IMP dependencies

[Daniel Russel <>]

Just to clarify, what is difficult is getting IMP to build on Windows, not getting IMP to build for Windows, which Ben does using Wine. The complications with getting it to build on Windows come from getting the various tools needed (scons, swig, python, shells, visual studio etc) working with one another and agreeing on the ways to pass paths and such around.

On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Ben Webb <> wrote:

> On 7/31/12 11:50 AM, Javier Velazquez-Muriel wrote:
>> Sorry to tell you, loyal followers of Steve Jobs, but a good chunk of
>> the world uses Windows. It is probably installed in more machines, and
>> on par or more powerful. Who is going to buy a high end mac desktop
>> having PCs for half the price? Who is going to run the computer
>> intensive tasks of IMP on a mac laptop anyway? Do you want more users?
>> Think in terms of percentages. Support Windows. My feel is that most of
>> the users will use it on Linux though.
> 
> We do support Windows, so no problem there. IMP builds with a recent version of Visual Studio Express (our build host uses 2010) which is free. In principle it would build with gcc on Windows too, but I don't think anybody ever tried that.
> 
> 	Ben
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