[gnet-dev] Re: gnet for windows

["Andrew J. Lanoix" <alanoix umich edu>]

--On Tuesday, April 24, 2001 5:13 PM -0700 wroberts1 home com wrote:
> Today i try to build my gtk/gnet application in windows using gcc-mingw
>
> First, mingw cannot link to a msvc dll, a '.a' library must be generated
> from it, for linking purposes only.  This is the procedure:
>    1) pexports gnet-1.0.dll > gnet.def
>    2) dlltool --def gnet.def --dllname gnet-1.0.dll --output-lib libgnet.a

I recommend that you build GNet using gcc-mingw, using the instructions and 
the makefile I posted on
Mon, 12 Mar 2001. The message is accessible in the archive at
http://www.gnetlibrary.org/pipermail/gnet-dev/2001-March/000010.html
In another message I also said you need to use the -lws2_32 switch when 
compiling your app too.
see:
http://www.gnetlibrary.org/pipermail/gnet-dev/2001-March/000005.html

> These instructions dont come with gcc-mingw, its from:
>      http://www.mingw.org/mingw-oldfaq.shtml
> pexports is at:
>      http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/binutils.html
>
> However, i'm not sure if mingw supports winsock2.
> It only has an incomplete winsock2.h
They now support winsock2 but you need to install an update. See the 
message post for more details.


> So if gnet-win32 must be built with msvc, then it would be useful to
> include a libgnet.a with the distribution.  I maybe the above steps could
> be added to the build process?
Yes, I'll will include all the instructions and makefiles on using GNet 
with gcc-mingw in the next snaphot. I will do one shortly after I return in 
two weeks. When I did the current snapshot, gcc was not supported since 
they need to do an update to support winsock2.h

> ....and on another note: The application i'm working on also uses GTK.
> This gnet-win32 currently requires the glib-20010301, but the current
> gtk-win32 is 20001226.  gtk+-dev-20001226 dont work so well with
> glib-20010301 since gtk wants g_main_loop_destroy().
> Maybe a new gtk-win32 release is needed that works with glib-20010301.
> I dont know if it would be better to build cvs sources in win32 or get Tor
> to release again.
Tor actually did a relase on March 1, but he did not update his website.
The link to the correct files is in the README.win32. You absolutely need 
these to get things working correctly.

> Maybe soon there can be a GUI gnet example that builds in all the
> platforms.
Perhaps David could be pressured to write one...?

Andy