Re: [gedit-list] Port to windows.

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 22:53 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:44 -0600, Steven Zimmer wrote:
> 
> > I'm currently taking a 4th year class on open source development, and
> > we are required to do a project for the open source community. I'm
> > wondering if a port to windows is already underway, if not I would
> > like to initiate this myself. My main reason for wanting to do this is
> > at work i'm forced to used windows but would like to use gEdit.
> 
> Afaik, there is no ongoing port of gedit to windows.
> Anyway, most of the required libs are available on windows: gtk+,
> gtksourceview for the most part.
> 
> What's going to be more tricky is the gnomevfs dependency, which is not
> available on windows (I think there was a ported version as part of the
> evolution port, but I'm not sure of it).

Gnome-Vfs is available on Windows, and there are binaries and
development files at ftp.gnome.org
(http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gnome-vfs). Same with
gconf, in case that matters.

>  But this could vanish if we
> switch to the new GIO library, which is available on windows as part of
> glib.
> 
> In gedit itself, the only tricky parts should be
>  - a few direct X calls, which could probably just be #ifdeffed since
>    the functionality they provide doesn't make sense on windows
>  - python integration (but it can already be avoided by using
>    --disable-python at configure time).
> 
> That's all I can say for now I'm afraid, but I think I've said it all.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Steve

Armin

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