Hi, On a couple of different occasions I have attempted to make a gtkg win32 build. The last time I got it compiling and running but I must have done something wrong with the win32 networking/sockets api because I could never connect to anything. I was going to clean up my code and submit it so people could at least have a base in the future, but I never got around to doing that.
It's something that has been sort of in the back of my mind forever but I never get around to doing it :) Anyway, I am not sure how far along Jeroen is but I thought I mention a couple of things that I got stuck on, maybe they will help someone. 1. Files - all the file accesses we use should be converted to glib functions if they aren't already. Glib automatically converts unix style directory names to win32 but I remember there being a problem with home directories and file creation, etc. I am pretty sure I just converted all the unix style fopen, etc. calls to the glib equivalents. 2. Resources - all the functions in resource.h weren't ported to mingw (and probably still aren't). I actually just commented out these calls/hacked up static values for available memory/etc. and "was going to deal with it later". I think we might be able to do this properly with the win32 API, but I am not sure if all of the API is available under mingw. Anyway, this is where we need to look (unless someone in the wide world has done a mingw resource.h library already). 3. Networking - there are no glib functions for networking (quel dommage!). There are mingw/win32 API functions equivalent to the unix socket functions but as I remember they have different function parameters. This means a bunch of "#ifndef _MINGW_W32_"'s with alternative calls to socket functions. Also, on W32 before your application can actually use any sockets, you need to call a socket initializing function. WSAStartup I think. The good news is that aside from these three things, things were easy to get working. The GUI was fine and the non-networking part of the backend (which is unfortunately not much of it) seemed to be operational. I should have kept at it or sent it in because I am sure the only problem was my dismal attempt at windows sockets. I've done a few cross-platform apps in gtk now though, maybe I should try it again... In any case, I hope this helps you out somewhat. Good luck! Emilie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Gtk-gnutella-devel mailing list Gtk-gnutella-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gtk-gnutella-devel
