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
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