Hello Inkscape Devs,
As a first time dev/user of the website/wiki/build system,
I wanted to point out some issues I ran into while building
Inkscape that may not be obvious to those that constantly use
it. I do want to point out that overall, I think building was
relatively easy.
I attempted to build under Windows 8.1 x64:
1. Bazaar seems to take awhile to download the sources, it
was around 30 minutes for the 'bzr
checkout lp:inkscape' command, this may be a
misunderstanding of the wiki instructions and bzr though.
Another 10-15 minutes was required for the devlibs64.
2. I initially tried to build a 32-bit target, however I
think the compiler stated in the Wiki (GCC 4.6.1) may have
been outdated for the project since there are new warnings
that were turned on that I had to turn off in the build.xml
for the compiler to stop complaining.