Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] building rhythmbox for win32 with MinGW/MSYS

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:28:02PM +1000, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Brecht Sanders<brecht sanders org> wrote:
> > Anyway, after addressing all this points (admittedly sometimes in a dirty
> > way by commenting out some things) I was able compile everything. However
> > linking failed with the output below. Basically there are a lot of undefined
> > references. Any idea why this happens?
> 
> I think I have spotted the problem.  Building corelib with
> -no-undefined, I got the below errors. Now a question to Rhythmbox
> developers: why does librhythmbox-core need something from rb-shell*?
 
Because this isn't a cleanly separated code base.  Everything calls
everything, which then calls back into everything.  The way the code is
currently split between the rhythmbox binary and librhythmbox-core was
more about getting it to link on common systems without having to move
too many things around than about getting it right.