Re[2]: argv revisited

2016-05-02 Thread Andrew Robinson
>Your problem about using UTF16 is related to the fact you are using >windows os and not linux or unix or macos x. All the others use utf-8 >EXCEPT WINDOWS. Isn't that what I was saying? It is horrid that Microsoft uses UTF-16 because, just like their software, it bloats everything to twice the

Re: argv revisited

2016-05-02 Thread David Marceau
On 04/30/2016 11:25 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: > My initial request for help in this forum was that main(argc,argv) only > returned garbage instead of the command line when using the 32-bit version of > GTK+ v3.18 on a 64-bit Windows7 OS. This forum was unable to offer any expert > help or advice

Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-02 Thread Andrew Robinson
Thank you Lucas, for submitting this post. MXE seems very interesting and I feel compelled to do some more research into it. On 5/2/2016 at 3:36 AM, Lucas Levrel wrote: >(copy to OP in case he's already unsubscribed, apologies for duplication >if he's not) > >Le 30 avril 2016,

Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-02 Thread Florian Pelz
On 05/02/2016 12:36 PM, Lucas Levrel wrote: > […] > > I'm not an expert programmer and when I wanted to compile for Windows > the software I developped in Linux, I couldn't achieve a satisfactory > result (using the -mwin32 or -mwindows flag gave either a clumsy > additional command window, or

Re: Unknown symbol in 'gio/gresource.c'

2016-05-02 Thread LRN
On 02.05.2016 14:36, John Emmas wrote: > I just hit a problem when building from git master with MSVC (32-bit > build). > > 'S_ISDIR' is coming up as an unknown symbol. fanc, care to comment? -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Unknown symbol in 'gio/gresource.c'

2016-05-02 Thread John Emmas
I just hit a problem when building from git master with MSVC (32-bit build). It's in 'gio/gresource.c' at line 254 in the function 'enumerate_overlay_dir()':- if (g_stat (fullname, ) == 0 && S_ISDIR (buf.st_mode)) 'S_ISDIR' is coming up as an unknown symbol. In other places where we

Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-02 Thread Lucas Levrel
(copy to OP in case he's already unsubscribed, apologies for duplication if he's not) Le 30 avril 2016, Andrew Robinson a écrit : Now my new problem I had was either locating a Win32 version of GTK+ greater than v3.18 or locating a version of libglib.dll greater than v2.40. It isn't going to