Re: [gtkmm] Re: [sigc] Building libsigc++ under Win32 for use with Intel C++ Compiler 6.0

[Cedric Gustin <cgustin ibelgique com>]

At 06:46 PM 11/6/2002 +0100, Dirk Gerrits wrote:

> > If you install the full cygwin, you might get conflicts with cygwin
> > libraries when using libtool. An example I frequently encountered is
> > the libintl and iconv libraries. When possible, libtool looks for .la
> > files. Because libintl and iconv do not come with those .la files (or
> > they are broken). libtool reverts to the .la files from cygwin -> you
> > get a bunch of undefined symbols and other errrors at link time.
>
> Ok, I'll just uninstall cygwin and start over. Just tell me *exactly*
> which Cygwin packages I need to install.

You can install everything except libintl and libiconv (they are part of 
gtk+-2.0 on win32 : see your list below). Or, if you install them, remove 
the corresponding .la files (renaming them is maybe better) in /usr/lib.


>  From the gimp site and your site I have:
> atk-1.0.3-20020821.zip
> atk-dev-1.0.3-20020821.zip
> freetype-2.1.2-1-lib.zip
> freetype-2.1.2-bin.zip
> gettext-0.11.2-w32.bin.zip
> gettext-dev-0.10.40-20020904.zip
> glib-2.0.6-20020802.zip
> glib-2.0.6.tar.gz
> glib-dev-2.0.6-20020802.zip
> gtk+-2.0.6-20020921.zip
> gtk+-dev-2.0.6-20020921.zip
> gtkmm-2.0.0-win32.tar.gz
> libiconv-1.7-w32.bin.zip
> libintl-0.10.40-tml-20020904.zip
> libjpeg-6b-lib.zip
> libpng-1.2.4-1-lib.zip
> libsigc++-1.2.1-win32.tar.gz
> pango-1.0.4-20020928.zip
> pango-dev-1.0.4-20020928.zip
> pkgconfig-0.13.zip
> tiff-3.5.7-bin.zip
> tiff-3.5.7-lib.zip
> zlib-1.1.4-bin.zip
> zlib-1.1.4-lib.zip
> Can I ditch any of these, or are they all necessary?

All are required, except maybe the image processing ones (libjpeg, linpng, 
...). Better to install them all.

> Perhaps a step-by-step guide on getting started with gtkmm2 with Windows 
> could be put up at the gtkmm2 site? I have some rudimentary Linux 
> experience and I couldn't have figured things out without these mailing 
> lists. How would someone without any Linux experience at all use gtkmm2 
> under Windows?

If gtkmm could be compiled with Visual Studio, things would be much easier 
on the user side. And we need a nice standard windows installer for 
gtk+-2.0 (and gtkmm-2.0) on win32 !!! Also, if somebody could try to 
compile (or to use my binaries) with mingw+msys, that would be great. Time 
to (re-)open a bugzilla entry, Murray ?

Cedric

P.S. : See also my other posts (my message to Jussi for example) for 
answers to cygwin/mingw problems