Re: Gnome2 on MS Windows

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 14, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote:

> On 4/14/05, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
> > > the Gnome2 and Gnome2::VFS modules in binary format for easy
> > > installation on MS Winows.
> >
> > the base libraries that these modules bind aren't available for native
> > win32 -- at least, not so far as i know.
>
>
> On the other hand I don't understand this as Gnome itself can be  
> installed on
> native Win32.

i was not aware of this.  last i checked (which i admit was a while  
ago) libgnome and libgnome-vfs make some unixy assumptions and don't  
compile cleanly or easily on native win32.

> Would someone explain me what libraries are not available ?
> Are those Gnome libraries or libraries that are within the Perl module  
> ?

the perl bindings themselves are quite portable, just like the Glib and  
Gtk2 modules.  it's the libraries that they bind that are the problem  
here.

Tor says that libgnomeui has not been ported to win32.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2004-December/ 
msg00055.html

The Gnome2 module binds libgnome and libgnomeui, which in turn depend  
on all sorts of things that also have not been ported (bonobo and  
gconf, mostly).


> What needs to be done in order to install these perl modules on native  
> Win32 ?

the Gnome2 module requires Gnome2::Canvas (libgnomecanvas) and  
Gnome2::VFS (gnome-vfs).  if you can get libgnome, libgnomeui,  
libgnome-vfs, and gnome-gconf to compile and work on native win32  
(libgnomecanvas is quite portable, but i don't know offhand of any  
win32 distributions of it), then the bindings should Just Work,  
following the same methodology as for Glib, Gtk2, and Gtk2::GladeXML on  
win32.


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