On 08.09.2013 22:29, Tarnyko wrote: > Hi Alberto, > Alberto Ruiz writes: >> Hello Tamyko, >> First of all I'd like to say kudos for your amazing work. There is a >> lot of people out there who depend on Gtk+ being built on Windows and >> your efforts are greatly appreciated. > > Thank you very much ! >> The answer here is hard. I'm inclined to say that you should scrap as >> much stuff as possible (unused binaries and as much dependencies as >> possible). If only to make the automated build a bit more reliable >> (the less stuff you build yourself the better). >> Wrt freetype/fontconfig it is worth considering how many packages can >> make good use of it, you mentined gimp and inkscape which are probably >> two of the most popular Gtk+ apps on Windows, so it seems reasonable >> to keep them. > > You're right, I think I will keep them. They're worth it. >> How about a Windows VM? I know Microsoft gives away Microsoft >> liceneses to free software projects and I've set up build servers with >> Windows in the past using SSH. The alternative, which is running MSVC >> on Linux/Wine is going to be HARD. > > Ho, interesting. I didn't know they had such deals with FOSS projects. > Will look into it. > Yes, cross-compiling using MinGW is already a pain ; I better not > imagine how hard it could be with an emulation layer such a Wine...
It isn't that hard to setup: http://jan.kneschke.de/2013/7/24/building-in-wine/ (just skip the cmake part as it isn't needed for glib/gtk) Python is for gobject-introspection. regards, Jan _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
