Re: [Banshee-List] Getting Started on Windows Porting

["Justin Cherniak" <compwiz312 gmail com>]

Eoin,

I have managed to build all of the managed components (with the exception of the Dap libraries).  The VS project files while they do load do not contain the proper references to needed assemblies.  Once those references were added in, the project did compile and run.

Fundamentaly I don't see any reason that libbanshee wouldn't compile on windows, it is just GTK and gStreamer from what I can tell, both of which run on windows.  At present, it does not build easily.  That said, I've seen various blog posts that show Banshee running on Windows, so obviously some work has been done but that does not appear to be in the trunk (or I'm blind and can't find it).  Do you (or anyone else here) know where any of this previous work resides?

Justin

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Eoin Hennessy <eoin hennessy gmail com> wrote:

Hi Justin,

Others are more qualified than I am to talk about this but as Aaron
mentioned [0], one of the main issues hindering a Windows port is
libbanshee. This is a C support lib handling gstreamer interaction.
Building it on Windows is currently either very difficult, or perhaps
not even possible. A solution will need to be found to either make
libbanshee more easily buildable on Windows, or ship a Windows
libbanshee binary.

Once this issue is out of the way Banshee supports building using
MonoDevelop, and MonoDevelop supports the Visual Studio build system.
So theoretically it should just be a matter of opening Banshee.sln in
Visual Studio and hitting F5. That would be *very* cool.

Porting's a highly rewarding task, made even more fun by the quality
of the Banshee codebase. I recommend getting stuck in.

Eoin

[0] http://abock.org/2008/10/20/cross-platform-thoughts-through-the-lense-of-banshee/

2008/12/19 Justin Cherniak <justin cherniak gmail com>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to invest some time to get Banshee working on windows over the
> next few weeks and I was just wondering what has/hasn't been done.  I've
> seen various blog posts with Banshee running in some fashion on windows and
> I was just wondering if anyone knows exactly what has been done and what has
> to be done.  Also, I don't see any branches or whatnot in SVN with any of
> the windows code (especially for building libbanshee) and I was wondering if
> anyone has patches they have been working on.  I can probably figure out how
> to make it compile myself, but if I am not repeating work and/or stepping on
> anybody's toes, that would be much preferred.
>
> Thank you,
> Justin Cherniak
>

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