Revision as of 23:05, 21 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.

• Install mingw base system only

     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=240780

• Install msys

     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963

• Install msysDTK directly over msys (direct link to file)

     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe?modtime=1041430674&big_mirror=1

• Install m4-1.4.7-MSYS into your msys /bin

     http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/m4-1.4.7-MSYS.tar.bz2?modtime=1162303978&big_mirror=1

• Install strawberry perl in default location

     http://strawberryperl.com/

• Set the environment variable INTLTOOL_PERL=/path/to/strawberry/bin/perl

     export INTLTOOL_PERL=/c/strawberry/perl/bin/perl
     this is done in c:\msys\1.0\etc\profile

notice

     for all following instructions, when you run configure do it with --prefix=/mingw

• install gnome versions of utilities

     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/
     create a directory c:\msys\1.0\dev
     add it to your path (in profile)
     unpack everything there
     you need at this point, pkg-config, gettext, gettext-deve, gettext-runtime, gettext-runtime-dev

• add this line to your profile

     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/dev/lib/pkgconfig

• upgrade autoconf to 2.63 from source

     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/

• upgrade automake to 1.9 from source

     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/

• install libcurl

     http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
     (direct linke) http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/win32/curl-7.19.0-devel-mingw32.zip
     find curl-config script from linux and copy it to /mingw/bin

• compile sword-1.5.11 from source (

     with libcurl is easier than ftplib
     you will have to manually alter makefile to link against regex

• download gnomesword 2.4.1
• download lots of gnome libs and unpack them in dev

     for everything, you need the normal and developer package
     atk, cairo, fontconfig, freetype, gail, gconf, glib, gnome-common, gnome-doc-utils, gnome-vfs,
     goocanvas, gtk+, gtkhtml-3.18, intltool, libart, libbonobo, libbonoboui, libbzip, libffi, 
     libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, libgnome, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui,
     libiconv, libIDL, libpng, libxml2, ORBIT, popt, pthreads, zlib, pango
     For these 2, you only need the binaries:
     expat, gnurx

• alter configure script to allow compilation without scrollkeeper
• apply linux/windows diff

     hopefully most will be unnecessary soon
     mailed to gnomesword-developers

• run configure with --enable-gtkhtml --disable-scrollkeeper --prefix=/mingw
• make

     you will have to alter the makefile in libs to link against libcurl.dll (-lcurl doesn't work)

• make install
• run gnomesword

• getting gnomesword free from mingw is another topic.

helpful links

1. http://live.gnome.org/Planner/Windows
2. http://www.go-evolution.org/Building_Evolution_on_Windows
3. http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys

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