Archive for May, 2010

It has not been easy to build Windar from source, until now.

• Pre-compiled binaries required have been compressed with 7-zip and added to GitHub.
• The main Windar solution is compatible with Visual Studio 2008 Express (free download).
• The page “Build and develop” has been added to the project wiki.

Since adding a test player and additional resolvers to the Windar download it grew from around 13.3mb to 20.4mb which seems a bit on the large side. The included Erlang core has been cut down further, removing redundant files, and the py2exe compiled Python resolver scripts are now done together, reducing the size too. The resulting installer file-size is 16.3mb and since the test player plugin might be provided as a separate download, this could bring the Windar download file-size back down to around 11.2mb.