This issue is to make our Windows builds (nightly, CI and release builds)
easier and better.
And also to satisfy @elextr 's long-time wish to have GTK3 Windows builds :).
My goal is to create Windows builds:
- with GTK3 only
- for x86_64 (aka amd64 aka 64bit) only
- fully automated on a Linux box
I've written a Dockerfile which sets up a cross-compilation environment with
mingw64-gcc, wine and a couple other necessary tools. It also bootstraps a
minimal MSYS2 environment so packages can be installed with `pacman`.
In the resulting build environment we start a script which does:
- clone Geany repository if necessary (i.e. if it is not bind-mounted into the
container)
- cross-compile Geany for Windows 64bit and GTK3
- sign all binaries and installer (if /certificates exist and contains cert.pem
and key.pem)
- download Geany-Themes for bundling
- create GTK3 bundle with all dependencies (including grep and sort)
- create the NSIS installer in ${OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
- test the created NSIS installer and compiled Geany
- test uninstaller and check there is nothing left after uninstalling
This is already working pretty nicely (even digitally signing the binaries!!).
I guess I'll put the Dockerfile and the build script into a new repository.
However there are some tasks left for discussion and to do:
- do you think it is safe to switch to x86_64 builds only? I guess since
Windows 7 almost everybody should have a x86_64 installation by default it she
didn't anything against it on purpose. But I'm not sure enough and I didn't
find proper resources on the net.
- there is a bug on Windows with GTK3 causing the message window to constantly
loose some height between starts of Geany (#2591)
- we need to decide which GTK3 theme we use by default:
- the default theme (I think it's Adwaita) looks a bit alien on Windows, see
screenshots below
- there is a "win32" theme natively in GTK3 which can be enabled in GTK3's
`settings.ini`, it doesn't look quite right either :(.
I would say let's try with the default theme even GUI elements feel a bit huge.
Or we find another good looking theme or someone hacks something. I definitely
won't work on this.
Dependant issues and PRs:
- [ ] #2591
- [ ] #2590
- [ ] #2572
Geany GTK3 Default Theme:
Geany GTK3 Win32 Theme:
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