[poppler] Win32 portability

[Reece Dunn]

Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:> Is there interest among poppler developers to maintain win32 portability?I am interested, having ported Poppler over to VC/Win32 myself.> I just started working on a PDF viewer for Windows> (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf). Initially I used> xpdf but just ported it to poppler and would much rather stick with> poppler since it has more open and more active development so that I> can benefit from fixes made to poppler and others can benefit from> fixes that I make.I have made similar fixes while looking at Poppler.NOTE: you need to be careful when removing unused variables thatthey are not actually being used inside a #ifdef...#endif block!> I would be happy to maintain win32 portability. I've opened a bug and> attached a patch to bring the latest cvs version of poppler to compile> on Windows under Visual Studio 2005> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7107).I have updated that to include my alternative patch.> Is that the best way to submit patches in order to get them into main> tree or should I use some other way (e.g. send the patches to mailing> list)?I assume that this would be the best approach, then they don't get lostlike my VC patch did!- Reece
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