On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 18:49 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote: > On the "Building gtkmm on Windows" web page I note the statement: > > "We suggest that you use MSYS to build gtkmm on Windows." > > This statement can only be be interpreted as:
This is meant as: "If you want to build gtkmm with MinGW, then we recommend using MSYS to do so", since it is in the "Using MinGW" section. I made it more clear on the Wiki page. > "We suggest that you build your project, gtkmm and another other C++ libraries > you intend to build from source with MSYS." > > Building any C++ project component with MINGW/MSYS means a total commitment > to that environment/build system for all C++ project components. C++ projects > and the libraries that they use must be built with the same compiler, due to > name mangling, exception handling, stack issues, etc. > > "The MSVC++ DLLs have been built with Visual C++ 2005." > > is fine, but better would be: > > "The MSVC++ DLLs have been built with Visual C++ 2005 and are linked to the > MS C/C++ runtime DLLs: MSVCR80.DLL / MSVCP80.DLL." It's a Wiki. Feel free to improve things yourself. > In my case, my Windows system has a later runtime environment: MSVCR90.DLL / > MSVCP90.DLL (MS Visual Studio 2008), so I have to recompile anyway. I think > cautioning people to verify which MS C/C++ runtime they have: 70/80/90, etc. > before using the binary installer would be a good thing. I don't have too much experience with different runtimes, but I succeeded in building a small example application with Visual Studio 2008 against the binaries of the installer, which have been built with Visual Studio 2005. Doesn't this work in general? I think the MSVCR80 runtime files are still shipped with Visual Studio 2008. > Anyway, I have built each of: gtkmm/glibmm/sigc++/cairomm sucessfully with > MS VC++ 2008. I just wish there were a way to automate the installation of > the development files to a target path from that gtkmm source tree. If that's indeed a problem, then we probably need to ship separate files for both Visual Studio 2005 (linked against *80.DLL) and 2008 (linked against *90.DLL). > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > 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
