RE: gtkmm binaries for win32

["Cedric Gustin" <cedric gustin gmail com>]

Hi Murray and the gtkmm community,

Turns out I'm still alive but I have been extremely busy in the last few months, both on the professional and private side of life. As a result, I haven't written a single line of code (java, C++, Python, PHP, ..., just name it) since about a year ago.

Anyway, I understand the concerns of the community about the need for updated gtkmm binaries for the win32 platform. But as my time is limited, I would be happy if one or two co-maintainers could please stand up and help me for these updated binaries, before taking over the maintenance say around the gtkmm 2.14 release time.

So, what is the status of gtkmm on win32 right now :

1. for the mingw32 target, everything (latest libsigc++, libxml++, glibmm, gtkmm, libglademm) builds fine
with the exception of libglademm : some missing symbols in the libglade DLL. I will submit a patch on bugzilla in the next few days. 

For early birds, I have uploaded binaries (mingw32 only, no MSVC) to a temporary location :

http://www.gustin.be/win32/gtkmm-win32-2.12.7.zip

2. for the MSVC platform, I target the Visual C++ Express 2008 toolchain. Because of small changes in the way Microsoft has included the Windows SDK in Visual C++ Express 2008, resource files (.rc) will have to be patched. The other part of the work will deal with updating the project files when required (for example for the new giomm binding). Nothing complicated but it make take a little time.

3. My installer is based on a NSIS script which should still be OK for gtkmm 2.12

So what I propose is the following :

1. Document how I build gtkmm for the mingw32 target : using a standard cygwin distribution (with the -mno-cygwin gcc compiler option) and the autotools (configure;make;make install) and make sure other people can reproduce the build.
2. Patch the code on svn for Visual C++ Express 2008 (under a new MSVC_2008 subdirectory) and update the project files accordingly. Document the build process and have other people reproduce it and ideally adapt it for MSVC 2005.
3. Upload an initial gtkmm 2.12 installer on ftp.gnome.org and upload the NSIS script on svn. Have other people generating the installer.
4. Decide with Murray what to do next and with whom.

Target is end of this month for reaching #4.

Fine for you ?

Cédric

-----Original Message-----
From: gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:gtkmm-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Murray Cumming
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:04 PM
To: Harun abd As-Sami
Cc: gtkmm-list gnome org
Subject: Re: gtkmm binaries for win32

I have tried contacting Cedric (the usual gtkmm win32 maintainer),
without success again. It looks like we do need new people to take care
of this.

But as usual:
1. I'm not just going to hand this over to someone without being fairly
sure that they will keep producing new binaries in future.
2. Project files (For new MSVC++ versions, for instance), and scripts
should really be in our svn where they can be seen, discussed,
perfected, etc. Please do try to add anything necessary to a bug in
bugzilla. That's the first step, and the way for people to convince me
that 1. might happen.

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:37 -0400, Harun abd As-Sami wrote:
> I will help with it.
> 
> I ran in to some of the same problems a week back. The .pc files I had
> to gtkmm and for gtk+ were in two different places and I could not
> figure out how to specify for it to check two different directories in
> the environment variable (if it even will). Temporarily I just dumped
> the .pc's in the same directory to get everything working but I am
> sure there's a better way.
> 
> Got everything working great with Dev-cpp though. Nearly every
> "example" case from the site works fine with it.
> 
> I would also like to get maybe a Perl script for people to run after
> they get everything working to create a Dev-cpp project file in every
> directory of the examples. I think this would be a good way to get
> people trying out many of the features on Windows. This would allow
> them to just double click on the Dev-cpp project in any example
> directory and be able to build and run the example without having to
> add the compilation and link flags individually to every single
> example for every project.
> 
> -Harun
> 
> 2008/3/26 Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>:
>         2008/3/26 Igor Gorbounov <igorbounov topazelectro ru>:
>         > Andreas Volz пишет:
>         >  > [...]
>         >
>         > > That worked great. Thanks.
>         >  >
>         >  > Some feedback:
>         >  >
>         >  > - gladewin32 should add at least a static HTML page. I
>         thought the
>         >  > project is dead.
>         >  >
>         >  >
>         >  [...]
>         >  The gtkmm installer from that site is awfully outdated. It
>         seems like
>         >  nobody is maintaining gtkmm for win32 for about a year.
>         >     Igor Gorbounov
>         
>         
>         Yes, I haven't seen Cedric around here for a little while
>         now.  If
>         anybody else wants to jump in and help with win32 support for
>         gtkmm,
>         it would be greatly appreciated.
>         
>         --
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