Re: building gobject-introspection with Mingw

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 12:36 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
> I have been experimenting for a little while, trying to build gtk3 using Mingw.
> I have done all the packages up to gtk itself.  gtk3 build failed with an error
> message about fallback-c89.c.  I found this using Google:
> http://osdir.com/ml/commits.gnome/2012-05/msg04658.html
> 
> I used the suggested patch.  The downside is that this seems to have required
> autoreconf.  Now configure wants gobject-introspection. 

It's just for the introspection.m4 file; you should be able to copy it
into the m4/ directory in the GTK+ source.

>  Anyway, I tried building gobject-introspection
> and that is where I am stuck now.

There's outstanding work on gobject-introspection/win32 that will
hopefully land in the near future, but for now, I'd recommend just
copying the m4 file.

Or, you could just m4_ifdef() it.  See bug 674314 for a similar
situation with gtk-doc.