Difference between revisions of "Frontends:Xiphos/Windows"

Revision as of 16:23, 13 November 2008

MinGW

MinGW is minimalist GNU for Windows.[1]

One lives in hope....

Needs

1. building of relevant libaries
2. building of GS itself

Setting up MinGW

A tutorial for how to set up a MinGW build environment.

Follow these instructions carefully [2]

Get these packages from here

1. pkgconfig
2. gettext
3. glib2-2.18.2-1

Download Gnome binary packages from here. Under gtk+ there is a bundle that has several you need. These get installed in c:\MinGW\

and I'm currently stuck here. Running aclocal in the gnomesword directory appears to work, autoconf has an error

     configure.in:48: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
     If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
     See the Autoconf documentation.

and automake says

     cannot open < gnome-doc-utils.make: No such file or directory

configure then gets confused on

    line 2622: syntax error near unexpected token 'GNOME'
    'PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GNOME, ' etc

so for some reason it isn't actually calling pkg-config

Articles found so far

1. http://live.gnome.org/Cross%20compiling%20GTK%2B%20for%20Win32
2. http://www.gnome-db.org/GnomeDbMinGW (has good tutorial to set up MINGW compiling on windows
3. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread86245.html (Order of commandline options for GCC is important)

Building of other GTK/Gnome projects

1. https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/BuildingMiroWithMinGW

Other stuff

1. http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Text-Editing-Processing/IDEs/MinGW-Developer-Studio-14939.shtml Allows compiling and cross compiling of GTK applications