Re: [Gexiv2] Autotools build system for GExiv2.

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Jim Nelson <jim yorba org> wrote:
> No worries, Jehan, we did see it.  I need to take a hard look at your patch,
> obviously, but we have no objections to moving gexiv2 to autotools and know
> it'll make your life easier.

Cool.

> It's great to hear it ports so well to
> Windows!

Yes indeed. I just tested GIMP master (with GExiv2) under a Windows VM
and I got metadata for an image. :-) So you did a good portability
job, I had no code to touch to have GExiv2 compile for Windows. :-)

> If you do run into any problems -- I'm sure you will -- filing a
> ticket is the best way to get our attention.

Well I just opened 2 bugs about broken metadata on our tracker. Not
sure yet if this is a EXiv2, GExiv2 or GIMP bug. We will report
upstream if it ends up being a bug in GExiv2, no worry.

Have fun.

Jehan

> -- Jim
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi, I am a GIMP dev. Since we now use GExiv2, I wanted to be able to
> cross-compile this lib easily on various system (Windows in particular, but
> this would apply to others too). So I ported your tree to an autotools build
> system. So this email is just to inform you of the feature request, with
> patch provided there: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7660 Just in case you
> did not see. I tried to keep all features of existing hand-made Makefiles,
> and hopefully there is no bug remaining. In any case that's likely a better
> fundation than hand-writting Makefiles. :-) Also I successfully
> cross-compiled GExiv2 and GIMP for Windows on my Linux system with this new
> build system. So that's a proven patch. :-) Thanks! Jehan
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