Re: Building gtksourceviewmm on Windows

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 12:08 -0600, Adrián Ortega wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to build gtksourceviewmm from source on Windows,
> hoewever I haven't been able to do so. I managed to build it under Linux
> and used it with no problems. 
> 
> I am using Cywgin 1.7.1 to try building the library. I want to build
> gtksourceviewmm 2.9.1 and it requires at least gtksourceview 2.9.4
> (which a I have to build as there are no binaries available for windows,
> the only ones available are from a previous version).

Can't you simply use a somewhat less recent version of both libraries
and get gtksourceview precompiled for that?

> Since I'm completely new with building libraries under windows and using
> cygwin, autotools.... I want to ask you for some recommendations:
> 
> Should I use Cygwin or MSYS to build gtksourceview and gtksourceviewmm
> under windows?

I am using MSYS. I have never felt the need to try out Cygwin so far.

> Do you have a link to a webpage with some reference about using the
> autools to build a library like gtksourceview(mm)?
> 
> I'd appreciate if you could provide me with some directions, reference,
> documentation or any information on what's the best way to build the
> library under Windows. Sorry if this sounds to silly for you, but I
> really want to learn to build the library under windows.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Armin