Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm and MSVC 2003

["Timothy M. Shead" <tshead k-3d com>]

Robin Neatherway wrote:

> I'm using the prebuilt packages from here:
> http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ 
> <http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/%7Egustin/win32_ports/> which currently use
> version 2.0.3 from the pkg-config output. The program compiles
> perfectly using gcc within Msys, but fails in MSVC. Both environments
> compile bare gtk+ apps perfectly.

Assuming you get it to compile, you won't be able to link your MSVC 
application with a library built using MinGW, because the C++ ABI for 
the two compilers are different.  GTK+ apps build fine because there 
you're using just the C ABI, which is compatible.

> I also tried to build the latest 2.0.5 version of libsigc++2 from
> cvs.gnome.org <http://cvs.gnome.org>, but that didnt go too well either. 
> When I loaded the
> .vcproj file into MSVC and tried to build, there were a load of files
> missing. I found them with .m4 extensions in macros directories, but
> I'm unfamiliar with m4 and running them through a simple "m4 slot.h.m4
>  > slot.h" and then placing that file in the correct location caused a
> load more errors to do with sigc not being in the global namespace. I
> tried running autogen.sh, ac.local, and many other commands to set it
> up properly under cygwin but I couldn't seem to do it.

Most of the libsigc++ source is generated automatically from the m4 
files.  If you have a bash environment via cygwin or msys, you should be 
able to run the autogen.sh script, then "make", which will generate the 
source.  From there you can open the MSVC solution file and build.

Cheers,
Tim