Re: Fun with ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Windows import libraries

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> 1. Patch lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm with the attached patch (the patch
> needs to be offered to guys maintaining ExtUtils::MakeMaker I guess)
>
> 2. When building Glib and Cairo, there are the extra steps before make 
> install:
>
> using spicy jack's method:
>
> dlltool --input-def Glib.def --dllname Glib.dll --output-lib Glib.dll.a
> copy Glib.dll.a blib/arch/auto/Glib
>
> and
>
> dlltool --input-def Cairo.def --dllname Cairo.dll --output-lib Cairo.dll.a
> copy Cairo.dll.a blib/arch/auto/Cairo
>
> Brian, you wrote that you have been able to abstract the above and add 
> it to the Makefile.PL. How exactly? However, I think this should/could 
> be corrected somewhere in lib/ExtUtils/ and not change the Makefile.PL
>
> 3. Now the patch for ExtUtils/Depends.pm - that's attached
>
> 4. Gtk2 installs without problems - at least in my test just now with 
> everything freshly built.

Sorry for responding so late.  Are these steps still necessary to get things 
going on MinGW?  Specifically, is the EU::Depends patch of step 3 still necessary?

Does one of you care to create a page with instructions somewhere under 
<http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl>?  And perhaps devise an update for 
<http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/win32/>?

(We should also really update <http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/platforms/>.)