Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Win32 please test

[Julien Puydt <jpuydt free fr>]

Michael Rickmann a écrit :
> Hello everybody,
> I have a new Windows version of Ekiga head based on attached minimal but 
> rather effective patches. you find it in my directory at 
> http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~mrickma/ekiga/ . As to the patches:
> 1) ekiga_linkmagic.diff : It allows the linker to chose WinMain as the 
> entry point. Result is that the C-library is initialized properly and 
> Ekiga exits gracefully, at least on XP. Additionally Ekiga can be 
> compiled with the -mwindows flag as Michael Cronenworth suggested.
> 2) The option to start Ekiga on login which was given in the installer 
> resulted in a non responsive icon in the Windows system tray. You could 
> just quit or ask for help. Ekiga has its own option to start minimized 
> which works very well under Windows.
> Please test whether the new attempt works for you. I would like to know 
> whether Ekiga really shuts down on Vista or whether it has to be killed 
> with the task manager.

I'm at my parents' place, and they have an EEE PC with some windows (XP 
if I am to believe the sticker), so I could give your build a try :
- the installer worked great -- it even upgraded the gtk+ runtime ;
- at first the ekiga.net account wouldn't connect : I had to close then 
reopen ekiga to have it register correctly (perhaps it's due to some 
firewall/antivirus?) ;
- the video preview works ok ;
- I couldn't call 500 ekiga net ; or more precisely, I asked to place 
the call and ended up with an ekiga which wasn't really in a call, and 
wasn't really off a call (it would only allow me to "Hang up" but that 
wouldn't do anything).

Snark