Re: building gobject-introspection with Mingw

[Lionel Landwerlin <llandwerlin gmail com>]

On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 13:29 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 12:36 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
> > I have been experimenting for a little while, trying to build gtk3 using Mingw.
> > I have done all the packages up to gtk itself.  gtk3 build failed with an error
> > message about fallback-c89.c.  I found this using Google:
> > http://osdir.com/ml/commits.gnome/2012-05/msg04658.html
> > 
> > I used the suggested patch.  The downside is that this seems to have required
> > autoreconf.  Now configure wants gobject-introspection. 
> 
> It's just for the introspection.m4 file; you should be able to copy it
> into the m4/ directory in the GTK+ source.
> 
> >  Anyway, I tried building gobject-introspection
> > and that is where I am stuck now.
> 
> There's outstanding work on gobject-introspection/win32 that will
> hopefully land in the near future, but for now, I'd recommend just
> copying the m4 file.

Is this work going to enable gir/typelib files generation when doing
cross compilation as well?

> 
> Or, you could just m4_ifdef() it.  See bug 674314 for a similar
> situation with gtk-doc.
>