Epiphany on Windows (cygwin) [was: Re: ask for a question]

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 14:17, Christian Persch wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 15:28, 秦志明 wrote:
> > do the Epiphany have some versions for win32?
> > like firefox of Mozilla
> 
> No(t yet).
> 
> There are some obstacles to making Epiphany run on Windows:
> - GtkMozEmbed doesn't work on Windows. This is currently being fixed;
> see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256560 .
> - Epiphany uses GNOME libraries which are unavailable on Window: Bonobo
> (marginal, could probably be removed with minimal effort), GConf
> (essential for configuration and our dialogues; maybe you could check
> how the Gnumeric port for Windows works around this), GNOME-VFS.

I've just learned of GNOME for cygwin
[http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/], it looks like it has most of what is
required. Mozilla should build with cygwin, and with the patch from the
bug referenced above,so should gtkmozembed. It looks like a (cygwin)
windows version of Epiphany is just a matter of someone investing a few
days/nights to actually do it :)

Regards,
	Christian