Hi! Thanks for the feedback! The issue looks possible, since this package is already installed on many computers, so testing didn't showed the problem.
As a workaround you can try installing 32-bit "Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8328 I hadn't investigated the problem yet, but what windows version you tried to install meld on? I tried it on another machine which I didn't used for testing earlier and it has 2 minute lag at every starting (not only first like font cahing) without any cpu or disk activity (windows 10). > Hi Vasily, > > Thanks for the information. I finally have gotten around to trying it. Meld > installed fine but when I run it, I get an error that says the application > can't run because MSVCR100.dll is missing. > > Any idea? > > George > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vasily Galkin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 12:24 AM > To: George Pippos <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Windows Builds of Meld > > Hi! > There is some off-mailing-list progress in build automation for windows in > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788570 > Last messages has a link for succeeded but not yet-not-officially-released > build - > https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kaiw/meld/build/master-3fcffe3.15/artifacts > (it's 3.19 from master, but at the building moment it hadn't yet any huge > differences from 3.18 branch). > > By now meld bugzilla contain the only issue specific to meld 3.18+ on > windwsoit: hang-like infinite spinning problem with multiple invocations or > 4k monitors on windows - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782967 > > I was using similar build for my day-to-day work for two weeks and didn't > find another problems. > So, if multiple simultaneous invocations or multi-megapixel window sizes are > not used - I hope it should work fine) > > The unfortunate thing is that it currently relies on pygobject-win32 > binaries (no new releases for several months), not on msys2. > So by now it isn't long-term solution. > > But from the user point of view artifact from the link above may be quite > useful (if using on 4k monitor is not planned). > Also, I think that even if it is not official build of release - the testing > and bug reporting are welcome! (since even if msys migration would be done - > the gtk-on-windows core is similar). > > Regards, Vasily > >> Hi, >> >> I read this on the Meld website: >> >> "New Windows builds are currently unavailable. If you'd like to help >> out with reproducible binary builds, please contact the Meld mailing >> list." >> >> I have been trying to build the source on my Windows PC but have had some > > difficulties. > >> What i have done: >> >> 1. Installed the latest version on Meld for windows (3.16.2). >> 2. Downloaded the latest source (3.18.0) >> >> 3. Attempted to build the source. > It failed so i installed cx_freeze >> >> 4. Commented out a few lines in build_exe_options of setup_win32.py. >> Namely: # "compressed": False, # "icon": "data/icons/meld.ico" as it was > > complaining that those options were not available 5. Attempted to build > again. It said it couldn't find a bunch of dlls and fonts etc so I copied > the installed Meld (from Program Files) to > Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\gnome because i found all the files it > was looking for in Program Files from the previously installed version. > >> 6. Attempted to build again. It failed saying that it was unable to find > > package "gi". > >> 7. I installed pygtk. Failed again. >> >> I would like to help out with these builds as i really like the > > application and i am primarily using Windows at the moment. Could anyone > perhaps point me in the correct direction? > >> Regards, >> >> George _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
