Re: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw

["Daniel Atallah" <daniel atallah gmail com>]

On Nov 8, 2007 11:51 PM, Karl Reis <kreight1-msu yahoo com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to successfully compile and create libmist.dll,
> libclearlooks.dll under windows?

Coincidentally, I built the gtk-engines-2-12 branch yesterday, so I
know it is possible to do.

> Libtool generates warnings saying that the shared libraries for gtk, pango,
> etc.. are not found.  Indeed, there are only static libraries.
>
> So, upon compiling gtk-engines successfully (which I'm able to do), I only
> end up with libmist.la, etc. and not the corresponding dlls.
>
> As a result of this, whenever I download a new theme with a gtkrc file that
> references engine "mist" for example, I get a GTK warning to the effect that
> the module was not found.  I assume it means libmist.dll is not found.

<snip />
It looks like Tor has already addressed the likely reasons for the
issues you're having.

> Another approach might be if anyone knows of precompiled versions of these
> files for windows?  I couldn't find them at the ftp site.

I can make my binaries available if you'd like.

-D