RE: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw

["Karl Reis" <kreight1-msu yahoo com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Atallah [mailto:daniel atallah gmail com]
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 0432 AM
> To: Karl Reis
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: FW: compiling gtk-engines under mingw
> 
> 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.

Quite a conincedence!  So, that tells me that something is messed up on my
system.

> 
> > 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.

Thank you for suggesting that.  That would be great.  However, let me say
that it would be nice if I can figure out what's really going on my system
first.  I'll let you know soon enough.

> 
> -D