Re: development version of PSPP

[William Simpson]

OK thanks a lot for your reply. I think I will wait for the binary :-)

Cheers
Bill


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, unknown-1 <address@hidden> wrote:
>>I went to http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/ download directory
>>Most recent file is pspp-0.6.2.tar.gz       11-Oct-2009 17:39  3.2M
>
>>http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git
>>Again, most recent thing I see is v0.6.2-pre1     pspp-0.6.2-pre1.tar.gz
>
> Right. On http://pspp.benpfaff.org/~blp/ you can find daily builds.The
> master version is the 0.7.2 version. But it is not stable, not tested
> and can change every day. So be carefull when using it. But if
> somebody wants to test it and give feedback I guess that would help
> the development team.
>
>>If the version on http://www.cecaps.ufmg.br/pspp/?page_id=128&lang=en is 
>>0.7.2, where does one get sources to it???
>
> See above. But as it is a daily build don't forget to mention the date
> of this build.
>
>>I also did not see any instructions anywhere on how to compile under win. I 
>>guess I will need a C compiler (gcc avail for win??) and misc other stuff so 
>>I can do
>> tar xvzf
>> package.tar.gz
>>cd package
>>./configure
>>make
>>make install
>
> Well it is a lot more complicated. You can build it using Cygwin or
> Mingw under MSWindows. Both are not easy to do. Or you can
> crosscompile it on a Linux machine for MSWindows, which isn't easy
> either.
> But I hope michel, who write an answer yesterday, the maintainer of
> the MSWindows build on cecaps will soon come out with the 0.6.2
> version and a newer 0.7.2 build.
>
> Have fun
>