Re: glib-mkenums in glib 2

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 27.12.2012 11:56, John Emmas wrote:
[...]
> Knowing that I'd at least managed to get _something_ working, I then tried
> running 'glib-mkenums' again - this time using Perl from MinGW/MSYS.
> However, that essentially gave me the same error that I reported in the
> first place:-
>
> /* Generated data (by glib-mkenums) */
>
> Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/File/Basename.pm line 338.
> fileparse(): need a valid pathname at glib-mkenums line 259
>
> I suppose I could try installing Strawberry Perl but wherever the fault
> lies, it's looking as if glib-mkenums can't be made to work successfully on
> Windows (at least, probably not without installing Cygwin).
>
> Has anyone managed to run that script successfully for a plain MSVC (or
> MinGW) build?
Yes, for years. The error you are refering to is missing filenames AFAICT.
You have to pass the headers to generate enums from as parameters to 
glib-mkenums like done in gio/makefile.msc

http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gio/makefile.msc#n233

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