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

[Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail yahoo com>]

 --- Daniel Glassey <danglassey ntlworld com> wrote: >
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.

I *started* working on a Unicode Win32 build under
MSVC6 some time ago. I only got as far as commenting
my
own tree for where the most obvious changes would be
needed. Please let me know if you're going to take a
crack at this and I'll help out.  There were quite a
few places that need to be changed - mostly not too
tricky though.

Andrew Dunbar.


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