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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hello all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">we are using the TZ datab</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">ase</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> on an embedded device.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">As the system has no standard operating system (only a small</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">proprietary</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> MicroKernel) and is not very powerful, we cannot use the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">TZ data</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">as is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> on the device</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. Instead of this, we create text files from the TZ data</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> for the countries and the time range we need on our</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">system</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">The application that is used to create these files, is written in C++ .NET (because our whole development</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">deployment processes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> done on Windows-based machines).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Currently I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m using a Linux machine to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">compile/make</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">code from tzcode*.tar.gz and to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">create the binary tzfiles. These binary files are then parsed by the application mentioned above.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Is there any possibility to compile the tzcode under Windows (especially Visual Studio 2005/2008) so that we could create our text files</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> automatically</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">using</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">only</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">tzcode*.tar.gz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">tz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">data</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">*.tar.gz</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> archives? I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">d appreciate any help or hints.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Best regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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