Re: Suggestion for gtk2-perl port for win32

["Ye Wenbin" <wenbinye gmail com>]

å Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:52:36 +0800ïTorsten Schoenfeld  
<kaffeetisch gmx de> åé:

> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 01:38 +0800, Ye Wenbin wrote:
>
> If you can provide a patch that implements your suggestions, and doesn't
> break the build on other platforms, we'd be pleased to apply it to fix
> those problems.
1. I can't figure out an clean way to solve the problem about the quote.
so I just copy the function and make a little change to make it fit to  
MSWin32.
The difficulty is the cmd use only double-quote and doesn't recognize
escape!
2. The Glib::MakeMaker is already make a choice for using Data::Dumper.
set enviroment variable FORCE_DATA_DUMPER to true. I add
$Data::Dumper::Indent=1 in the patch.

> If I remember correctly, the cause for the long lines was related to the
> automatic documentation generation.  So passing "disable-apidoc" to
> Makefile.PL when running it should help.  But you lose the API docs, of
> course.
the command link all object to a dynamic library is also too long(more  
than 4000 characters).
I get a error like:
NMAKE : fatal error U1095: expanded command line 'gcc -o  
blib\arch\auto\Gtk2\Gtk2.dll -Wl,--base-file -Wl,dll.base -mdll ${XSFILES}  
-Wl,--image-base,0x69100000  ${LIBS} dll.exp' too long
(object file and libs are omit)

Anyway, now I can build the Gtk2. The procedure is as following:
1. Get all tools required. I use ActivePerl v5.8.8, which build by Mingw  
gcc and nmake, so you have to get them first. And then install Gtk+/Win32  
Runtime and Development Environment(from  
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/news/).
2. Setup environment variable, make sure the nmake, gcc, pkg-config is  
available in cmd. Serval environment variables is important:
 a. PATH  - which all command is located in one of these directories
 b. CPATH - the directories that contain header file which can be  
specified with -I.
 c. LIBRARY_PATH - the directories that contain .lib files which can be  
specified with -L.
 d. PKG_CONFIG_PATH - pkg-config search these these directories for  
packages.
3. run commands in cmd:
 > set FORCE_DATA_DUMPER=1
 > perl Makefile.PL
4. for Glib, just "nmake"
5. for Gtk2,
> nmake /N > make.bat
The nmake signal error like:
NMAKE : fatal error U1095: expanded command line 'gcc -o  
blib\arch\auto\Gtk2\Gtk2.dll -Wl,--base-file -Wl,dll.base -mdll ${XSFILES}  
-Wl,--image-base,0x69100000  ${LIBS} dll.exp' too long
 copy the string in the quote from 'gcc' to 'dll.exp' to make.bat. run  
make.bat. Wait the compile done. Then
> nmake /N > make.bat
 Now it signal the similar error again. Redo as above, copy the command to  
make.bat, run make.bat, then nmake /N > make.bat until all command is  
passed.
6. Finally, install it:
 > nmake install

Seem stupid, but it works. All test is passed.

--
Best regards.
Ye Wenbin

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