Thanks, Cedric, that sounds great. On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 22:28 +0200, Cedric Gustin wrote: > Hi Murray and the gtkmm community, > > Turns out I'm still alive but I have been extremely busy in the last few > months, both on the professional and private side of life. As a result, I > haven't written a single line of code (java, C++, Python, PHP, ..., just name > it) since about a year ago. > > Anyway, I understand the concerns of the community about the need for updated > gtkmm binaries for the win32 platform. But as my time is limited, I would be > happy if one or two co-maintainers could please stand up and help me for > these updated binaries, before taking over the maintenance say around the > gtkmm 2.14 release time. > > So, what is the status of gtkmm on win32 right now : > > 1. for the mingw32 target, everything (latest libsigc++, libxml++, glibmm, > gtkmm, libglademm) builds fine > with the exception of libglademm : some missing symbols in the libglade DLL. > I will submit a patch on bugzilla in the next few days. > > For early birds, I have uploaded binaries (mingw32 only, no MSVC) to a > temporary location : > > http://www.gustin.be/win32/gtkmm-win32-2.12.7.zip > > 2. for the MSVC platform, I target the Visual C++ Express 2008 toolchain. > Because of small changes in the way Microsoft has included the Windows SDK in > Visual C++ Express 2008, resource files (.rc) will have to be patched. The > other part of the work will deal with updating the project files when > required (for example for the new giomm binding). Nothing complicated but it > make take a little time. > > 3. My installer is based on a NSIS script which should still be OK for gtkmm > 2.12 > > So what I propose is the following : > > 1. Document how I build gtkmm for the mingw32 target : using a standard > cygwin distribution (with the -mno-cygwin gcc compiler option) and the > autotools (configure;make;make install) and make sure other people can > reproduce the build. > 2. Patch the code on svn for Visual C++ Express 2008 (under a new MSVC_2008 > subdirectory) and update the project files accordingly. Document the build > process and have other people reproduce it and ideally adapt it for MSVC 2005. > 3. Upload an initial gtkmm 2.12 installer on ftp.gnome.org and upload the > NSIS script on svn. Have other people generating the installer. > 4. Decide with Murray what to do next and with whom. > > Target is end of this month for reaching #4. > > Fine for you ? > > Cédric > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Cumming > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:04 PM > To: Harun abd As-Sami > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: gtkmm binaries for win32 > > I have tried contacting Cedric (the usual gtkmm win32 maintainer), > without success again. It looks like we do need new people to take care > of this. > > But as usual: > 1. I'm not just going to hand this over to someone without being fairly > sure that they will keep producing new binaries in future. > 2. Project files (For new MSVC++ versions, for instance), and scripts > should really be in our svn where they can be seen, discussed, > perfected, etc. Please do try to add anything necessary to a bug in > bugzilla. That's the first step, and the way for people to convince me > that 1. might happen. > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:37 -0400, Harun abd As-Sami wrote: > > I will help with it. > > > > I ran in to some of the same problems a week back. The .pc files I had > > to gtkmm and for gtk+ were in two different places and I could not > > figure out how to specify for it to check two different directories in > > the environment variable (if it even will). Temporarily I just dumped > > the .pc's in the same directory to get everything working but I am > > sure there's a better way. > > > > Got everything working great with Dev-cpp though. Nearly every > > "example" case from the site works fine with it. > > > > I would also like to get maybe a Perl script for people to run after > > they get everything working to create a Dev-cpp project file in every > > directory of the examples. I think this would be a good way to get > > people trying out many of the features on Windows. This would allow > > them to just double click on the Dev-cpp project in any example > > directory and be able to build and run the example without having to > > add the compilation and link flags individually to every single > > example for every project. > > > > -Harun > > > > 2008/3/26 Jonathon Jongsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/3/26 Igor Gorbounov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Andreas Volz пишет: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > That worked great. Thanks. > > > > > > > > Some feedback: > > > > > > > > - gladewin32 should add at least a static HTML page. I > > thought the > > > > project is dead. > > > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > The gtkmm installer from that site is awfully outdated. It > > seems like > > > nobody is maintaining gtkmm for win32 for about a year. > > > Igor Gorbounov > > > > > > Yes, I haven't seen Cedric around here for a little while > > now. If > > anybody else wants to jump in and help with win32 support for > > gtkmm, > > it would be greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > > jonner > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtkmm-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtkmm-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com
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