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MinGW

MinGW is minimalist GNU for Windows.[1]

One lives in hope....

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 (Be sure to grab the current release installer, not the tech preview.)

     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 by adding the following line to c:\msys\1.0\etc\profile:

     export INTLTOOL_PERL=/c/strawberry/perl/bin/perl

Setting up required libraries

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

• install gnome versions of utilities (direct links below)

     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: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-0.23-2.zip
 gettext: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-0.14.5.zip
 gettext-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-dev-0.14.5.zip
 gettext-runtime: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime-0.17.zip
 gettext-runtime-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/gettext-runtime-dev-0.17.zip

• 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: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/atk/1.24/atk_1.24.0-1_win32.zip
     atk-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/atk/1.24/atk-dev_1.24.0-1_win32.zip      
     cairo: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/cairo_1.8.0-1_win32.zip
     cairo-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/cairo-dev_1.8.0-1_win32.zip
     fontconfig: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/fontconfig-2.4.2-tml-20071015.zip
     fontconfig-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/fontconfig-dev-2.4.2-tml-20071015.zip
     freetype: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/freetype-2.3.6.zip
     freetype-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/freetype-dev-2.3.6.zip
     gail: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gail/1.22/gail-1.22.0.zip
     gail-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gail/1.22/gail-dev-1.22.0.zip
     gconf: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/GConf/2.22/GConf-2.22.0.zip
     gconf-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/GConf/2.22/GConf-dev-2.22.0.zip
     glib: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib_2.18.3-1_win32.zip
     glib-dev: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/glib/2.18/glib-dev_2.18.3-1_win32.zip
     gnome-common: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gnome-common/2.11/gnome-common-2.11.0.zip

, 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

• setup xml2po

     install python 2.5
     ensure that python is on your path (windows environment variable)
     edit /dev/bin/xml2po shebang line to just say #! python
     install python libxml2 from here http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/

• install iconv

     You will need this version of iconv http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm.

• install gnome-icon-theme

     You may need to rename share/icons/gnome/ to share/icons/hicolor. This theme is required by the studypad

• alter configure script to allow compilation without scrollkeeper
• update gnomesword to latest 2.4.x svn
• 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.

• Windows XP look

To get the windows XP look, go to /dev/share/themes/MS-Windows/gtk-2.0 copy gtkrc to /dev/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

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