Re: [[gtkmm] DLL support for MSVC/Borland]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:59, Thomas Nichols wrote:
> Can anyone give an idea of the effort required for support for MSVC? The 
> "Windows support" bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79124 
> hasn't been updated in a while,

That bug is closed.

> the consensus seems to be that MSVC 6 is so 
> badly broken as to be unworkable. Does that mean we're waiting on Herb 
> Sutter's team at MS to ship a standards-compliant compiler?
> 
> In a few months I'll need MSVC support for an upcoming project - mingw (and 
> probably digitalmars / openwatcom) won't cut it, I need to ship libraries. 
> I can't put a lot into this right now (so I'm not expecting a lot back!) 
> but an idea of whether MSVC support is even achievable, and if so whether 
> it is hoped to make this part of the standard distro, would be helpful.
> 
>  From the recent archives, John Burris has posted instructions for getting 
> Gtk--1.2  to work. Before I try to find time to test this with gtkmm2, can 
> anyone offer pointers on known issues?  I've read the (CVS) README.win32.

The first step is to get libsigc++ building with win32. You can worry
about gtkmm after that. If libsigc++ 1.0 built with MSVC then maybe you
can get libsigc++ 1.2 to build with it too.

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