RE: Compiling Glib 1.223 on win xp

[RAPPAZ Francois <francois rappaz unifr ch>]

Hi Martin

Thanks for the proposal but the problem is not worth the bother. I will probably move to Strawberry perl in 
the future (being obliged to upgrade from xp to w7), and will reconsider this at that time. Since the 
binaries I've found are working now with AS, it's not that much important.

Regards

François

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Schlemmer [mailto:Martin Schlemmer nwu ac za]
> Sent: mercredi, 1. juin 2011 14:11
> To: gtk-perl-list gnome org; RAPPAZ Francois
> Subject: RE: Compiling Glib 1.223 on win xp
>
> > > > On 2011/05/27 at 01:26 PM, RAPPAZ Francois
> <francois rappaz unifr ch> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > I wanted to compile perl bindind for Glib and friends to have a
> recent
> > Gtk2-perl, but I give up...
>
> Generally building packages for AS perl with mingw is a pita.  I have
> sorted out most of the issues in the last few years I have been
> building Gtk2-perl for AS perl, and could send the scripts I am using,
> but you will need MSYS as well (I use grep, which I guess I could
> replace with perl code, but do not have time right now).
>
> The other option is if you can point me to the Gtk2 build you are
> using, I can compile them for you against that version of Gtk2.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> > I tried camelbox but without installing the core perl which was
> needed with
> > it, and that was not working either with my perl 5.8.9 from
> ActiveState.
> > I'm reluctant to have two perl versions installed, it's not very
> elegant at
> > least, and even in twisting the path when using the gtk2 in a script,
> I
> > prefer to keep the binaries I have found for ActiveState.
> >
> > The questions will come again when I upgrade and possibly move to
> another
> > perl distribution.
> >
> > Francois
> >
> > > At this point I have to ask why you're not using Camelbox.  All this
> > > work is done for you already, you just have to run the installer and
> > > let it do it's magick.  It looks like the only downside to running
> > > Camelbox for you would be the fact that you have different versions
> of
> > > Perl and GTK installed and listed in your %PATH environment
> variable,
> > > and you would need to clean up your %PATH (remove any GTK and Perl
> > > paths not related to Camelbox) prior to trying to use Camelbox.
> This
> > > could be done quite easily by using a DOS batch file, and you would
> > > not need to make any systemwide changes.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brian
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