Re: MinGW build

[Ari Jolma <ari jolma tkk fi>]

Ari Jolma kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
> I've been building things on MinGW. I saw earlier posts on compiling 
> Gtk2 on MinGW, two problems were mentioned: too long lines and 
> DynaLoader failing to load Gtk2.dll. I solved the too long lines 
> problem simply by using xs/*.o instead of the long list. For the 2nd 
> problem I don't have a complete solution but I at least manage to get 
> Gtk2.dll loaded ok with a tool called "dependency walker", which is a 
> tool for debugging DLLs. First I gave the export table of the Glib.dll 
> a better name (Glib.dll) than dll.exp.dll using the -D switch of 
> dlltool. The I copied the Glib.dll to a directory in a path, so 
> windows finds it. After these dependence walker loads Gtk2.dll nicely.

I'm talking to myself, but anyway, this is interesting. I now got the 
Gtk2.dll to load Glib.dll in runtime.I compiled the Glib.dll normally 
(i.e. more or less with Makefile generated by Makefile.PL) and then copy 
it as "dll.exp.dll" into Gtk2//blib/arch/auto/Gtk2. mingw32-make test 
generates lots of errors but it opens windows etc. For example the 
example/dialog.pl works but reports many "g_object_set_qdata_full 
assertion 'quark > 0' failed" errors.

This is promising however. I just need a way to tell, when the Gtk2.dll 
is linked, that the name of Glib.dll is really Glib.dll and it should be 
loaded from this specific location (d:/perl/site/..).

Ari

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