Re: GTK+ mingw32 dynamic linking conflict (cairo/pangocairo)

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 5 September 2017 at 17:28, Jeffrey Sheen
<jeffrey sheen00 alumni imperial ac uk> wrote:
> Binaries built and distributed with mingw, distributed through MSYS2, are
> declared official here:
>
> https://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php
>
> Has anyone built against these binaries with MSVC?

That's not what MSYS2 is for. MSYS2 is a Unix-like environment on
Windows, and using MSVC is not compatible with that, especially for
things like debugging symbols.

You either want to build everything with MSVC, or you build everything
with MSYS2.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> On 5 September 2017 at 17:19, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > On 5 September 2017 at 17:15, Jeffrey Sheen
> > <jeffrey sheen00 alumni imperial ac uk> wrote:
> > > Thank you Emmanuele, but as above, I've observed `gvsbuild' project a
> > > having
> > > variable compatibility with the ecosystem of target
> > > machines/environments.
> > >
> > > I would like to build against the official release, to establish a
> > > benchmark
> > > of compatibility.
> >
> > What's an "official release"?
> >
> > Ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> >
> > > On 5 September 2017 at 13:12, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On 5 September 2017 at 13:01, Jeffrey Sheen
> > > > <jeffrey sheen00 alumni imperial ac uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone built against the official GTK libs successfully with
> > > > > MSVC?
> > > >
> > > > Look at gvsbuild: https://github.com/wingtk/gvsbuild
> > > >
> > > > Ciao,
> > > >  Emmanuele.
> > > >
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