Re: Windows Builds of Meld

[Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru>]

Hi!
There is some off-mailing-list progress in build automation for windows in 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788570
Last messages has a link for succeeded but not yet-not-officially-released build - 
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaiw/meld/build/master-3fcffe3.15/artifacts
(it's 3.19 from master, but at the building moment it hadn't yet any huge differences from 3.18 branch).

By now meld bugzilla contain the only issue specific to meld 3.18+ on windwsoit: hang-like infinite spinning 
problem with multiple invocations or 4k monitors on windows - 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782967

I was using similar build for my day-to-day work for two weeks and didn't find another problems.
So, if multiple simultaneous invocations or multi-megapixel window sizes are not used - I hope it should work 
fine)

The unfortunate thing is that it currently relies on pygobject-win32 binaries (no new releases for several 
months), not on msys2.
So by now it isn't long-term solution. 

But from the user point of view artifact from the link above may be quite useful (if using on 4k monitor is 
not planned).
Also, I think that even if it is not official build of release - the testing and bug reporting are welcome! 
(since even if msys migration would be done - the gtk-on-windows core is similar).

Regards, Vasily


> Hi,
>
> I read this on the Meld website:
>
> "New Windows builds are currently unavailable. If you'd like to
> help out with reproducible binary builds, please contact the Meld
> mailing list."
>
> I have been trying to build the source on my Windows PC but have had some difficulties.
>
> What i have done:
>
> 1. Installed the latest version on Meld for windows (3.16.2).
> 2. Downloaded the latest source (3.18.0)
>
> 3. Attempted to build the source. > It failed so i installed cx_freeze
>
> 4. Commented out a few lines in build_exe_options of setup_win32.py. Namely: # "compressed": False, # 
> "icon": "data/icons/meld.ico" as it was complaining that those options were not available
> 5. Attempted to build again. It said it couldn't find a bunch of dlls and fonts etc so I copied the 
> installed Meld (from Program Files) to Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\gnome because i found all the 
> files it was looking for in Program Files from the previously installed version.
>
> 6. Attempted to build again. It failed saying that it was unable to find package "gi".
> 7. I installed pygtk. Failed again.
>
> I would like to help out with these builds as i really like the application and i am primarily using 
> Windows at the moment. Could anyone perhaps point me in the correct direction?
>
> Regards,
>
> George