Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] README.mingw (yet another update)

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Let me express my public "thanks".

You have been successful where many have failed and you have not chosen
the easiest path.

Thanks to you, I keep the faith and my motivation to hack on
GnomeMeeting NG!


Le mardi 13 septembre 2005 à 23:00 +0200, Julien PUYDT a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> less patches have to be applied to opal and gnomemeeting.
> 
> Things are taking shape : I made audio calls successfully.
> 
> I'll need to remove everything and re-run README.mingw from scratch to 
> check it is still always accurate.
> 
> Snark
> pièce jointe plain text document (README.mingw)
> ***** NOTICE: this is a work in progress ; it is nowhere near usable yet! *****
> 
> == Useful links ==
> * http://www.mingw.org
> * http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
> * http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32
> * http://www.sleepycat.com/products/db.shtml
> * http://www.openldap.org
> * http://www.openh323.org/cvs.html
> * http://snapshots.seconix.com
> * http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
> * http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
> * http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
> 
> == Recipe ==
> 
> ** Installing Mingw:
> MinGW-4.1.1.exe
> in C:\MinGW  (default)
> Current's full install
> 
> 
> ** Installing MSYS:
> MSYS-1.0.10.exe
> in C:\msys\1.0  (default)
> 
> 
> ** Installing msysDTK
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
> in c:\msys\1.0  (default)
> 
> 
> ** Checking the environment
> Put in hello.c:
> #include <stdio.h>
> int
> main (int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   printf ("Hello\n");
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> then:
> $ gcc hello.c
> $./a.exe
> Hello
> 
> 
> ** Installing MinGW's bison
> bison-2.0-MSYS.tar.gz
> (tar xzf in /usr to match)
> 
> 
> ** Installing GnuWin32's flex
> flex-2.5.4a-1.exe
> in C:\GnuWin32 (NOT default)
> 
> 
> ** Installing pthreads-win32
> pthreads-2005-03-08.exe
> Extract in a temp dir, then from the Pre-build/ directory:
> - copy include/* to /c/MinGW/include
> - copy lib/libpthreadGC1.a to /c/MinGW/lib/libpthread.a
> - copy lib/pthreadGC1.dll to /c/MinGW/lib/pthread.dll
> remove the temp dir ; it's useless
> 
> 
> ** Setting up the environment
> Put in .profile:
> export PATH=$PATH:/mingw/lib:/c/GnuWin32/bin:$HOME/pwlib/lib:$HOME/opal/lib
> export OCVSROOT=-d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/openh323
> export GCVSROOT=-d:pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome
> 
> (needs relaunching msys to apply)
> 
> 
> ** Installing GNU's regex
> regex-0.12.tar.gz
> ./configure
> make
> 
> it will fail in the docs ; no problem:
> $ ar ru libregex.a regex.o
> $ cp regex.h /mingw/include
> $ cp libregex.a /mingw/lib
> 
> 
> ** Installing sleepycat's Berkeley DB
> db-4.3.28.tar.gz
> go in the build_unix directory then:
> $ ../dist/configure --enable-mingw --prefix=/mingw
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> 
> ** Installing OpenLDAP
> openldap-2.3.6.tgz
> $ configure --with-cyrus-sasl=no --prefix=/c/MinGW
> $ make depend
> $ cd libraries
> $ make
> it will fail, but running 'make install' in liblber, libldap and libldap_r is
> enough to get the libs.
> Go into the include directory and run 'make install' there too.
> 
> 
> ** Installing pwlib's cvs
> $ cvs $OCVSROOT login
> $ cvs $OCVSROOT -z3 co ptlib_unix
> $ mv pwlib ptlib_unix
> $ cvs $OCVSROOT -z3 co ptlib_win32
> $ mv pwlib ptlib_win32
> 
> 
> ** Compiling pwlib
> Get the patches from sourceforge's patch tracker, and uncompress them.
> $ ./prepare_for_mingw
> $ cd pwlib
> $ autoconf
> $ ./configure --disable-qos --enable-openldap --disable-sasl --enable-video --enable-plugins
> 
> FIXME: make sure vfw.cxx isn't compiled by src/ptlib/msos/Makefile ; that thing
> is not compilable on mingw yet (will probably hurt sometime in the future, but
> well...)
> 
> $ make opt
> 
> Finally:
> 1. make a symlink from libpt_mingw_x86_r.dll to libpt.dll
> 2. make a symlink from  make/ptlib-config to bin/
> 3. edit make/ptbuildopts.mak and add "-lpt" to the ENDLDLIBS line (or opal
> won't be linked with pwlib, and hence linking will fail -- FIXME!)
> 
> 
> ** checking the lib is usable
> $ cd samples/hello_world
> $ make opt
> $ ./obj_mingw_x86_r/hello.exe
> Hello world!
> 
> 
> ** Compiling opal
> 
> Get from cvs.
> Remove configure.exe and configure.
> $ autoconf.
> $ ./configure
> $ make opt
> Finally, make a symlink from lib/libopal_mingw_x86_r.dll to lib/libopal.dll
> 
> 
> ** Installing gtk+ (and dependancies)
> glib-2.6.6.zip
> glib-2.6.6-dev.zip
> gtk+-2.6.9.zip
> gtk+-dev-2.6.9.zip
> pango-1.8.2.zip
> pango-dev-1.8.2.zip
> atk-1.9.0.zip
> atk-dev-1.9.0.zip
> pkg-config-0.15.zip
> libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip
> gettext-runtime-0.13.1.zip
> gettext-tools-0.13.1.zip
> 
> Extract them all in C:\MinGW
> 
> 
> ** Testing gtk+
> Get the sources of hello.c here:
> http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/c58.html#SEC-HELLOWORLD
> Then compile :
> $ gcc -mms-bitfields -o hello.exe hello.c `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0`
> $ ./hello.exe
> 
> 
> ** Installing zlib
> zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/mingw
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> (neat!)
> 
> ** Installing wget
> wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2
> 
> wget.exe is in the archive (!) ; copy it in /mingw/bin
> 
> ** Installing libpng
> libpng-1.2.8-mingwPORT.tar.bz2
> libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2
> Untar both in the same directory, go there and do:
> $ patch -p1 < mingwPORT/mingwPORT.patch
> (the rest of the files of mingwPORT is pure crap IMNSHO)
> edit scripts/makefile.mingw and:
> - replace -lzdll by -lz everywhere
> - replace the libpng12 by libpng13
> $ make -f scripts/makefile.mingw
> $ cp libpng13.dll /mingw/lib
> 
> ** Installing libxml2
> libxml2-2.6.21.tar.gz
> 
> $ ./configure --prefix=/c/MinGW --with-threads=no
> $ make
> $ make install
> 
> 
> ** Installing ActivePerl
> 
> ActivePerl-5.8.7.813-MSWin32-x86-148120.zip
> (It seems it is needed to get XML::Parser...)
> 
> Install in some directory, then move the perl/ directory in /c.
> Modify the .profile and add /c/perl/bin at the beginning of the PATH (yes,
> ugly...).
> 
> 
> ** Compiling gnomemeeting
> 
> First of all, you must get the opal branch of cvs (cvs co -r opal gnomemeeting)
> on a GNU/Linux system, then run ./autogen.sh -no-configure, to
> get the needed portable configure script.
> 
> Compress the gnomemeeting tree, move the archive to the win32 box and untar
> it to get /home/XXX/gnomemeeting, then:
> $ ./configure --disable-gnome --with-pwlib-dir=/home/XXX/pwlib --with-opal-dir=/home/XXX/opal --with-ldap-dir=/mingw --disable-howl --prefix=/c/MinGW
> $ make
> 
> It should now compile and link. Running is another story ;-)
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