On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Peter Bortas <bor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Windows build: >> >> >> https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.162/Pike-v8.0.162-win32-oldli >> bs.msi >> >> I did some work on building newer support libs for Windows, but that >> ended up being 6 hours of mostly frustration. So Nettle, GMP, GTK and >> Freetype are all still versions from 2008 or so. That build will >> probably not be promoted to a real release. Use it at your own >> risk. I'll have another go at that in the coming weeks. >> > > Hmm. I'd like to help out with GTK, at least - the regression against > current stable Pike (which is shipping 2.24.10 in the .msi) is a > problem for me, as I depend at least 2.16 for some features. The last > time I had GTK versioning issues on Windows, I put together this > collection of ready-to-go DLLs: > > http://rosuav.com/gtk/ > > Dropping those files into the pike/bin directory makes GTK2.version() > return 2, 24, 10, but since the module wasn't actually built against > that version, functions like GTK2.Entry()->set_icon_from_stock simply > don't exist. So presumably it'll need to be done at an earlier step in > the build process.
Fixing GTK is probably less work than GMP/Nettle, but it's not something I've even looked at yet. I'll see if I can just plot your stuff or something more recent in there. -- Peter Bortas
