GTK+3 Win32 Bundles : RFC

[Tarnyko <tarnyko tarnyko net>]

Hi again folks, 

As of today, the state of the GTK+3 Win32 Bundles is the following : 

Cross-platform build environment is setup in the GNOME infrastructure. It 
has the attribute of not using pre-built packages (RPMs), but only a minimal 
MinGW compiler able to rebuild all the stack, from Gettext to GTK+3. 

Resulting binaries can be found on : 

http://win32builder.gnome.org/ 

They notably integrate MinGW and MSVC import libraries. 


I'd like to have feedback on the following subjects : 

- GTK+2 bundles used to integrate Gettext, Freetype and Fontconfig binaries. 
They're not directly needed, however Gettext is useful for 
internationalization, and some well-known software (GIMP, Inkscape) use 
Freetype/Fontconfig.
Scraping them from the bundle will free 5-10 Mb of compressed space. Should 
I keep them ? 

- As of GTK+ 3.8, generating MSVC import libraries requires the MSVC 
toolchain itself. I'm currently setup-ing 3.8 buildenv without them. People 
interested in having them in the bundle should :
* give insight on how to run MSVC on a Linux machine/integrate a Win32 
machine in the GNOME infrastructure
* contact me to help me setup such a toolchain (personally unexperienced on 
this topic). 


I'll soon link this post to 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695600, so we can have the 
bundles on the gtk.org website. 

Regards,
Tarnyko