On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 01:15 +0300, lrngate wrote:

> Here I'm try to answer about win32 builds of synfig.

Excellent, thanks :)

> About bad build of Synfig Studio svn:228. I'm know about some strange
> problem with this build. I have at least two computers, where it's
> work and one where it does not. In last case it was a WinXP SP2 with
> very rights-restricted user. I'm don't remember which problem was in
> there, but I have svn:234 build and it start and work at that
> computer. So, now it's need to check the new version and search the
> problem if it still present.

I have tested it on wine 0.9.30 and in a WinXP SP2 Adminstrator user,
results below.

> How I make it? As I know, Robert Quattlebaum, use Cygwin to produce
> cygwinless application. I don't know that. Also I'm don't like Cygwin,
> so I'm use the native MinGW. But it was a not good way. MinGW required
> several configuration files and at least one dirty hack in middle of
> synfig core build process (need to patch generated libtool script).
> But for now I'm  found how to make it by automatically. 

Eeek, yucky

> So I'm hope to write solution and place it at synfig wiki.

Excellent, thanks for that.

> But first I need to know: which win32 patches will be applied.

Anything that doesn't break the other platforms will be applied (as long
as it is a good patch and so on). No special rules for Win32 patches.

> Slow download speed. I'm sorry, but mmaa.ru is my only available to
> upload site for this time. (And I make new page for fresh synfig
> builds: http://atrus.mmaa.ru/synfig/)

The download speed on the new page was very fast compared to the old
one. I've updated the download page on synfig.com to point to the new
ones (and the new page).

Some quick comments on the new version:

      * The icon used in the start menu should be synfig_icon.png
        instead of sif_icon.png (sif_icon is the icon for *.sif files).
      * Starting synfigstudio causes a command line to open with debug
        messages and stuff. This is good for SVN builds, but I think in
        a release, it shouldn't do that.
      * synfigstudio isn't relocatable - if you move the install
        directory somewhere else after installing, then synfigstudio
        will no longer be able to find the icons. This is something I
        planned to work on, make synfig/synfigstudio use the win32 (and
        macos, /proc on linux) functions to find out where it's exe is
        located and find icons and plugins relative to there.

Some errors I noted under wine (ignore them):

      * The lyr_freetype module causes synfig to crash under wine (but
        not winxp)
      * There is a weird error running synfigstudio under wine, but it
        works fine under windows

> But if Paul Wise give me access You to sf.net synfig site, I'll cat
> upload it to there.

Once we have a stable and working Win32 version, that is what I plan to
do. I think that I'd prefer that only released versions were uploaded to
sourceforge, for now keep uploading SVN versions to your server.

> Also I'm hope to make later a binary patches from one synfig build to
> another.

Interesting, how do you plan to do this? Using nsis' VPatch or
something?

PS: Thanks heaps and heaps for this. Do you plan on being the synfig
Win32 maintainer for very long? I'd like to post a release status news
item and you being the win32 maintainer is an important item for any
status message.

Also: are you subscribed to this list (synfig-devl)? 

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.synfig.com/PaulWise

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