Re: GLib and 64-bit Windows

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 01.03.2007 21:40, Jake Goulding wrote:
> Hey all, i am trying to compile glib-2.8.6 (an older version, I know...) 
> under Windows Server 2003 64-bit.
> 
> I hit the following issues:
> gbacktrace.c(192) : error C2065: 'SIGTRAP' : undeclared identifier
> 
> This is caused by an if/else fallthrough in gbacktrace.h. Adding the 
> following lines skipped that problem, but didn't fix it:
> 
> #elif defined (_MSC_VER) && defined (_M_X64)
> #  define G_BREAKPOINT()        G_STMT_START{ }G_STMT_EN
> 
> Then I immediately ran into other problems:
> glib.def(129) : fatal error LNK1118: syntax error in 'G_GNUC_MALLOC' 
> statement
> 
> 
> 
> My 2 questions:
> Has GLib been successfully compiled in 64-bit mode under Windows?
Didn't hear about that.

> Would a newer version of glib help me in getting my compile to work?
> 
Yes. At least the above mentioned issue is fixed on trunk. But there are
probably more things to fix, which could be merged to trunk but much less
to glib-2-8.

gobject.def: gobject.symbols
	echo EXPORTS > gobject.def
	cl /EP -DINCLUDE_VARIABLES -DG_OS_WIN32 -DALL_FILES \
		-DG_GNUC_MALLOC= -DG_GNUC_CONST= -DG_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED=
-DG_GNUC_NORETURN= \
		-DG_GNUC_PRINTF=;G_GNUC_PRINTF gobject.symbols >> gobject.def


	Hans

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