Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm and MSVC 2003

[Martin Schulze <martin-ml hippogriff de>]

Am 24.09.2004 07:25:04 schrieb(en) Frank Naumann:
> Hello1
>
> > 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.
>
> As libsigc++ 2 don't compile under MSVC 2003

It should compile according to other users (e.g. Timothy  
<tshead k-3d com> and James Lin <jameslin vmware com>).
However there is still a runtime problem (assertions in most programs).  
I'm awaiting a patch for this.

> you can't use MSVC 2003
> for gtkmm 2.4. I got a message that libsigc++ 2 may compile ok under  
> MSVC 2005 (which I don't looked at it yet).
>
> libsigc++ 1.2 and gtkmm 2.2 compile ok under MSVC 2003.
>
> > 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.
>
> First run configure and make of msys to generate and compile all  
> files. Then you can try to compile with MSVC.

You needn't do any of this. The sources generated from the .m4 files  
have always been included in the tarballs!

Regards,

 Martin