Re: EXTERNAL: Re: win32 installer?

[Damon Register <damon w register lmco com>]

On 7/16/2012 3:25 PM, Dieter Verfaillie wrote:
> There's a couple of patches you need that are not yet upstreamed
> (due to their "ugly hack"/"wip" status) in this branch:
> https://github.com/dieterv/gobject-introspection/commits/windows
Thanks.  I downloaded last night.  I hope you don't mind me asking
but I guess I don't totally understand what I read at the site.
Is this a complete snapshot of the gobject-introspection project
with your changes or does this only represent the files that are
changed.

I tried building this windows version from you and got a fail saying
that gtk-doc.mak was missing.  I thought that perhaps the windows
bundle includes only files that are different so I copied all the
missing ones from the latest release (is this a correct assumtion?)

autoreconf and configure seemed to work ok but make failed with this
output
e/glib-2.0/gobject/glib-types.h gir/glib-2.0.c g-ir-scanner g-ir-compiler.exe --output GLib-2.0.gir 
> g-ir-scanner.args
  GISCAN GLib-2.0.gir
make[2]: *** [GLib-2.0.gir] Error 5

and a Python crash

> Which is used to produce the experimental GTK+ bundle (including
> g-i and pygobject for Python 2.7) on:
> http://optionexplicit.be/projects/gnome-windows/GTK+3/
I will have to try this.

> Installers are for end user product (GIMP, Gedit, Inkscape, etc)
> but not for libraries and components used to build such end user
> products. An installer for some sort of an SDK however would a
I understand your point but I have to admit that the gtkmm installer
that I have used in the past was very handy.  I suppose all that is
really needed is to copy those libraries and components to a chosen
directory and maybe setup a few environment variables?

come to think of it, isn't that (SDK) what we normally think of
when talking installers?  Even a folder of files with some instruction
for setting environment variables would be great.

Damon Register