Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

Hi,

It's great to see an interest in work in this area and many enthusiastic mentors! However, the idea on 
https://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2013/Ideas needs to be made a lot more specific in order for us to be able 
to move it to the confirmed ideas section.

Creating Windows builds and fixing bugs that come up is not a suitable GSoC project, as a GSoC project needs 
to have code deliverables as its primary goal and a specific plan for the work to be done. It's ok if this 
work is a set of bugs with a common theme that need to be fixed, but these bugs need to be identified ahead 
of time. Could someone outline a better plan for the project?

Bakhtiar, are you a student and if so, are you interested in participating in GSoC with this?

Thanks,
Marina

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bakhtiar Hasmanan" <mr tiar gmail com>
To: "Bernhard Reiter" <ockham raz or at>
Cc: "Marina Zhurakhinskaya" <marinaz redhat com>, "Helge Herz" <Helge Herz web de>, "gnome-soc-list" 
<gnome-soc-list gnome org>, "mr tiar" <mr tiar gmail com>, "Dieter Verfaillie" <dieterv optionexplicit be>
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 12:58:23 PM
Subject: Re: Windows port of PyGObject Introspection/GSoC

Oops I forgot to CC

Hi,

Basically the main exception for Windows is those GTK2's remnant of
win32 suffixed function names which I think doesn't need to be
different at binding level from linux version. Other than that it has
been g-ir-scanner issue which generate corrupted gir. Also
g-ir-generate's gdump.c, but this need clarification where upstream
devs want to go for? MinGW or MSVC?

Personally I only know MinGW and current state of gdump.c only
"somewhat" works with mingw.org's w32api and mostly not with
mingw-w64's which mean no 64bit.

That said, me and Helge basically are in brute-force mode of making it
"work". No proper "fixes" has been done by us. But the infos may be
useful nonetheless.

Off topic, I think devhelp need to be ported to win32 (for people with
limited internet resource). The PyGobject Tutorial definitely not
enough. I have ugly patch here
http://osspack32.googlecode.com/files/devhelp_win32.patch (3.6.1) and
have build several other gtk3 apps here too
http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html. Somehow
those apps will refuse to work if build as single executable, it need
exe+dll combo. It's like missing needed exported functions? Anyone
knows?