Re: building glib on win32

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 30.04.2005 06:30, Jack Moffitt wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm having trouble building glib 2.6.4 on win32.  I've had glib 2.4.7
> building great after just modifying a few paths in the makefiles, but
> this version is broken with respect to io watches (as discussed on the
> mailing list recently).  Tor has a new patch for this, but apparently
> this only works on the 2.6 and HEAD trees.
>
> A few problems I noticed:
>
>  * IsDebuggerPresent is only available in later versions of the windows
>    API.  WINVER and/or __WIN32_WINNT need to be defined >= 0x0400 in
>    order for this call to get declared.
>
>  * gmessages.c contains some calls to getpid() that aren't enclosing in 
>    #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/gmessages.c?view=log

> Once these are fixed, there are still issues.  The creation of glib.def
> from glib.symbols fails.  I suspect the call to the preprocessor needs
> -DALL_FILES and somehow needs to include gmacros.h.  After hacking this
> to "work", one of the .exes build later fails to build, but all the
> libraries seem to build ok. 
>
> Has this been fixed in CVS?  I can't figure out how to generate the
> .win32 files from .in files without doing it all by hand so I haven't
> bothered trying to build CVS yet.
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/glib/makefile.msc.in?view=log

Yes, at least on HEAD this is fixed - can't remember if it
got applied to glib-2-6. But now you know how to llok yourself ;-)

	Hans

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