On 29/05/15 11:00, Thomas Martitz wrote: > Hello, > > I've successfully managed to build Geany on MSYS2, against both gtk2 and > gtk3. I've started to describe the steps on the wiki: > https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/msys2, however the page is not > complete yet (but complete enough to produce a running geany). > > Short introduction, see the wiki page for more details: > > Msys2 is a successor to msys which offers a unix-like environment on > Windows combined with a pacman-based package manager. It's purpose is to > simplify win32 compilations, and it's doing great at that for GTK+ stack > and related projects. In fact, it's so good it should become the default > method of compiling Geany on Windows. > > See http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/ and http://msys2.github.io/ > > For me, as regular Arch Linux user, this is by far the most easiest > method to compile Geany on Windows. And it has the *huge* advantage of > providing up-to-date binaries of the GTK+ stack, in contrast to the > obsolete gtk bundles. I heard the GTK guys plan on removing the bundles > and instead rely solely on MSYS2 for all of their win32 efforts.
Woohoo, thanks! That sounds great. I will test/use it soon when I find the time playing with it. Hopefully, this enables us to eventually remove the Waf build system in the longterm. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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