Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] win32 build issues

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Am Freitag, den 27.01.2006, 14:44 +0100 schrieb Michael Rickmann:
> > Hello everybody,
> > I am new to this list and have been fighting the Windows compiling of Ekiga 
> > for a while. This morning I discovered the win32 packages at 
> > http://snapshots.gnomemeeting.net/win32/ . I will give them a try this 
> > weekend. Here are my experiences so far:
> >
> > The directory layout can be simplyfied very much if you install The GIMP for 
> > Windows before building. Actually you only need the GTK+-runtime bin 
> > directory in your Windows %PATH% (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:
> > \WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Programme\Gemeinsame Dateien\GTK\2.0\bin for a 
> > German Windows). This seems to emerge as a standard for GTK progs on Windows. 
> > Also Gaim uses this location. For building, only install the -dev zip-files 
> > into your ming32 or i686-pc-mingw32 tree. Then you should only need the files 
> > currently contained in ekiga-core.zip for running ekiga. Unfortunately the 
> > current ekiga.exe has a hardwired opinion where to find its dlls.
> > The runtime found at http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html also looks a 
> > bit nicer on an XP-box than the dlls in ekiga-shell.zip.
>
> well, all of Ekiga CVS and even the build script for crosscompilation is
> open source. You're invited to join the hackfest and provide patches to
> make the above idea come reality. To me it sounds like a sensible idea
> to reuse the system-installed libs if available and I'd like to include
> it into the crosscompilation.

I fully agree : being able to share the gtk+ installation across various 
programs would be nice.

Snark