Running tzcode under Windows / C++ .NET

[Gerber, Oliver]

Hi Ilya,

thanks for the link. This library directly uses the textual files in the tzdata*.tar.gz archives. I'm not sure whether this is the best idea - the code in tzcode*.tar.gz is already able to do that; and it is widely used and very well tested. And our application is already able to read the binary tzfiles.

So it would be a lot easier if we just could use the code that comes with the tz data under Windows.

Best regards,
Oliver


Oliver Gerber
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> Oliver,´
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> You might find this article useful:
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/zoneinfo_dotnet_api.aspx
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> we are using the TZ database on an embedded device. As the system has
> no
> standard operating system (only a small proprietary MicroKernel) and is
> not
> very powerful, we cannot use the TZ data “as is” on the device. Instead
> of
> this, we create text files from the TZ data for the countries and the
> time
> range we need on our system. The application that is used to create
> these
> files, is written in C++ .NET (because our whole development and
> deployment
> processes are done on Windows-based machines).
> 
> 
> Currently I’m using a Linux machine to compile/make the code from
> tzcode*.tar.gz and to create the binary tzfiles. These binary files are
> then parsed by the application mentioned above.
> 
> 
> Is there any possibility to compile the tzcode under Windows
> (especially
> Visual Studio 2005/2008) so that we could create our text files
> automatically using only the tzcode*.tar.gz and tzdata*.tar.gz
> archives?
> I’d appreciate any help or hints.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> Oliver Gerber
> 
> 
> Diplom-Informatiker
> 
> 
> Software Engineer
> 
> 
> Cardinal Health Research Services
> 
> 
> ph: +49 931 4972 276 | fax: +49 931 4972 62276
> 
> 
> oliver.gerber at cardinalhealth.com
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> www.cardinalhealth.com/researchservices
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> Cardinal Health Germany 234 GmbH
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> Leibnizstr. 7
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