Re: How to build native Win32 Gnumeric ?

["Ivan, Wong Yat Cheung" <ivanwong gnome org>]

Hi,

I hope this reply won't be too late. (I didn't subcribed to this list)

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> delfagolil-1 yahoo fr wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >  
> > I'd like to compile Gnumeric and build the Win32 application.
> > I've tried to do this with Cygwin, but I'm not really sure it is the 
> > good way to obtain the native Win32 Gnumeric.
> >  
> > Could you confirm using Cygwin is the best way to build Win32 Gnumeric ?
> > If no, which kind of environment is needed to do so ?
> >  
> > Thanks in advance
> >  
> > Best Regards
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *
> > *
>
>
> I tried to build it myself some months ago using MSYS and didn't get 
> terribly far.  I know that the person who builds the releases uses 
> Cygwin somehow, but I don't know much more than that.

I changed to use mingw on debian after the first release of 
Gnumeric/Win32 IIRC. Cygwin is just too slow for me for this purpose. In 
terms of ease of setting up the compiling environment, from the easiest 
to the most difficult:

1. Cygwin/MSYS
2. MinGW on Debian
3. MSVC

In terms of the time required to build you just have to reverse the 
list. MSVC is the fastest, MinGW on Debian is a little bit slower and 
Cygwin/MSYSis at least 10-30 times slower than MSVC. Note that I am not 
comparing the speeds of gcc and MSVC, I mean the duration of the -build 
process-.

To get Gnumeric/Win32 compiled, perhaps the first step is to get 
libgsf/Win32 compiled.

Cheers,
Ivan.