Re: glib(win32) without libffi

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 30.07.2012 04:55, Fan Chun-wei wrote:
> 於 2012/7/29 下午 09:57, Colin Walters 提到:
> > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 15:24 +0200, Hans Breuer wrote:
> > I didn't say "no"; we're having a discussion. Realistically, so while I
> > personally *do* care about Windows builds, I find cross-building with
> > mingw a much saner approach to making Free Software available for Windows
> > users, though it does obviously hamper our accessibility to Windows
> > developers.
> Well, I guess I have to have a say on this, IMHO... Please bear with me for
> this.
>
> Not to take sides, but I guess Hans did make really valid points especially
> as a long time contributor to GTK+/GNOME on Windows.
See my other mail: I finally followed Colin's advice to try harder ;)
Not by contacting the libffi mailing list, but by using a build environment 
I know better.

> The other big factor that is involved in keeping the Visual C++ build files
> up to date is due to the debugging features that are provided by Visual
> Studio, as MinGW's gdb isn't as effective in Windows, AFAIK.
Yeah, this is my main point beside not liking to wait for configure or 
libtool runs.

> [...]
> p.s. For LibFFI, I can't say much about building it with mozilla-build and
> Visual C++ 6.0, since I don't run it, but it seems from Hans comments
> that it uses features provided by later Visual C++ versions, such as 2005+,
> which I have managed to do and outlined in
> https://live.gnome.org/GTK+/Win32/MSVCCompilationOfGTKStack
After all it seemed to be some deficiency in the build environments, maybe 
the lack of 'ml' with msvc6 and the lack of 'lib' with the win7ddk.

Thanks,
	Hans

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