Re: glib 2.3.3 and Windows

[Hans Breuer <Hans Breuer org>]

At 00:14 25.02.04, J. Ali Harlow wrote:
> I've just tried to build glib 2.3.3 under my linux-x-mingw32 build 
> environment (thanks for the release, Owen). After Tor's comment on bug 
> 134813 it wasn't a great surprise that it fell over badly.

Just looked at the bug number and found nothing relevant (your typo or mine 
;-) and commited stuff laying around on my disk since the weekend. 
Compiling dindn't fail that badly and should work at least with msvc again ...


> My situation is that I have chosen to base the latest application I'm 
> writing on glib 2.3.2 on the basis that 2.4.0 would be released in plenty 
> of time before I was ready to release my own stable version. This now 
> seems in jeopardy.

Are you about to release your version very soon, do you think some small
build glitches are jeopardy - or did I miss some breakage ?

> Given this, I would like to look at solving these problems if noone else 
> more qualified is available to look at these issues this week.

I'm certainly not qualified for configure magic, but ...

> I attach what I have so far - a patch to glibconfig.h to at least allow 
> the build to progress to gmain.c (I don't know if including windows.h from 
> glibconfig.h is a good idea yet, so I haven't yet submitted this to bugzilla).

... including windows.h in glibconfig.h would cause huge breakage in 
application code due to massive namespace clashes (at least in Dia).

Thanks,
        Hans

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