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Offline Kamikaze

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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #40 on: June 30, 2006, 07:48:14 pm
Quote from: Kazan on June 30, 2006, 07:42:40 pm
QT is also comercially encumbered and requires additional installation packages on windows.

Kinda. It's OSS on all platforms. However, you need to buy a commercial license if you plan to make a commercial product.

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wxWidgets's implementation on windows and MacOS uses the native underlying system calls and for unixlike systems there is wxGTK and wxUniversal

That's true, I think Qt just clones the widget themes instead of being completely native.
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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #41 on: June 30, 2006, 07:54:45 pm
well, unless i'm blind or something, wxwidgets would be nice to have, but i cant find a precompiled windows binary for it. can anyone help? apparently i'm only able to find the source....

i need to compile a small proggie i found on the net...

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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #42 on: June 30, 2006, 08:06:14 pm
Quote from: pecenipicek on June 30, 2006, 07:54:45 pm
well, unless i'm blind or something, wxwidgets would be nice to have, but i cant find a precompiled windows binary for it. can anyone help? apparently i'm only able to find the source....

There aren't any binaries. The packages on the website are for developers.
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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #43 on: June 30, 2006, 09:14:58 pm
Quote from: Kamikaze on June 30, 2006, 07:48:14 pm
Quote from: Kazan on June 30, 2006, 07:42:40 pm
QT is also comercially encumbered and requires additional installation packages on windows.

Kinda. It's OSS on all platforms. However, you need to buy a commercial license if you plan to make a commercial product.

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wxWidgets's implementation on windows and MacOS uses the native underlying system calls and for unixlike systems there is wxGTK and wxUniversal

That's true, I think Qt just clones the widget themes instead of being completely native.


you need no special license to use wxWidgets for comercial applications - it's LGPL, just link against it's dynamic link libraries if you want to write closed source
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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #44 on: June 30, 2006, 09:16:49 pm
Quote from: pecenipicek on June 30, 2006, 07:54:45 pm
well, unless i'm blind or something, wxwidgets would be nice to have, but i cant find a precompiled windows binary for it. can anyone help? apparently i'm only able to find the source....

i need to compile a small proggie i found on the net...

Kazan, i'm giving up on my arguments with you, i'm just a)too lazy to argue about it anymore and b)i got better things to do for the time being...

as kamikazi said - there aren't precompiled binaries except when distributed with other packages (PCS2 statically links against it)

wxWidgets is an API, so if that program doesn't use the API then wxWidgets won't help you
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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #45 on: July 01, 2006, 10:03:07 am
sooo... what can i use then to compile stuff, other than VisualStudio express... which i loathe and despise.
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Re: Windows Genuine Advantage to become mandatory?
Reply #46 on: July 01, 2006, 11:25:59 am
There are lots of compilers out there. Try looking on Google for them.

EDIT:

Ok, got some updates. The rumor has been "officially denied".


There's a piece of malware that imitates it (more proof that anti-piracy tools are actually just anti-consumer tools).

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/30/HNwormmsantipiracy_1.html

and also M$ is getting sued over WGA by people saying it is spyware.

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3213


Pretty interesting twists......
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