Re: Windows Builds of Meld

[Vasily Galkin <galkin-vv yandex ru>]

Hi! Thanks for the feedback!
The issue looks possible, since this package is already installed on many computers, so testing didn't showed 
the problem.

As a workaround you can try installing 32-bit "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)" 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328

I hadn't investigated the problem yet, but what windows version you tried to install meld on?
 
I tried it on another machine which I didn't used for testing earlier and it has 2 minute lag at every 
starting (not only first like font cahing) without any cpu or disk activity (windows 10).

> Hi Vasily,
>
> Thanks for the information. I finally have gotten around to trying it. Meld
> installed fine but when I run it, I get an error that says the application
> can't run because MSVCR100.dll is missing.
>
> Any idea?
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vasily Galkin [mailto:galkin-vv yandex ru]
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:24 AM
> To: George Pippos <gpippos gmail com>
> Cc: meld-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Windows Builds of Meld
>
> 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