Re: For mingw developers ...[Fwd: Win32 GNOME 2 Patches]

[Daniel Glassey <danglassey ntlworld com>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:13:26PM -0700, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > Many of the Gnome2 libraries and dependencies can
> > currently run "natively" on top of Win32, using Gtk2,
> > Glib2, Gnet, and the like as their portability layer.
> > This, IMO, is the right way to go. If we're seriously
> > interested in this, we've got to figure out which ones
> > don't, and why.
>
>
> 100% agreement.
>
> I would not advocate building a win32 version of gnumeric that
> requires cygwin.  My goal has been to remote the gnome (and by proxy
> bonobo) dependencies, and pare things down to only that set of
> libraries that have native builds.
>
> gtk (and by extension atk, pango, glib) have win32 versions.
> libglade and libxml are also clean.  The gnome-canvas may have
> problems due to an explicit usage of the freetype pango backend.

freetype is good on win32 as well so that should be no problem.

> libgsf is known clean on win32.
>
> libgnome would be simple were it not for bonobo that will not run
> under win32, so both need to go.  There are still a few vestigages
> of both for me to root out.  GAL is seeing minimal usage, mainly the
> xml DOM utilities and a few widgets that will be moving.  So it too
> can be removed.  Which leaves gnome-print as the only real question
> mark.

> The first and most important step would be for someone to put a
> build environment in place and try it out.  I just can't stomach
> creating yet another build system.

btw for mingw/msys at least there is no need for a totally new build 
system. It handles configure scripts ok. MSVC and a really new system 
can wait until after mingw works.
The main thing to start with is going to be going through the 
dependencies and going through and documenting getting the right version 
of them for win32 and patches if necessary and building.

Regards,
Daniel (kinda abi-mingw maintainer)

P.S. Sorry, can't commit to this right now, busy looking at how hard it 
would be to build abi in unicode mode on win32 to solve a few bugs. But, 
if someone gets it going, I'd be happy to help where I can.