Re: GTK+3 Win32 Bundles : RFC

[Jan Kneschke <jan kneschke de>]

On 08.09.2013 22:29, Tarnyko wrote:
> Hi Alberto,
> Alberto Ruiz writes:
> > Hello Tamyko,
> > First of all I'd like to say kudos for your amazing work. There is a
> > lot of people out there who depend on Gtk+ being built on Windows and
> > your efforts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much !
> > The answer here is hard. I'm inclined to say that you should scrap as
> > much stuff as possible (unused binaries and as much dependencies as
> > possible). If only to make the automated build a bit more reliable
> > (the less stuff you build yourself the better).
> > Wrt freetype/fontconfig it is worth considering how many packages can
> > make good use of it, you mentined gimp and inkscape which are probably
> > two of the most popular Gtk+ apps on Windows, so it seems reasonable
> > to keep them.
>
> You're right, I think I will keep them. They're worth it.
> > How about a Windows VM? I know Microsoft gives away Microsoft
> > liceneses to free software projects and I've set up build servers with
> > Windows in the past using SSH. The alternative, which is running MSVC
> > on Linux/Wine is going to be HARD.
>
> Ho, interesting. I didn't know they had such deals with FOSS projects.
> Will look into it.
> Yes, cross-compiling using MinGW is already a pain ; I better not
> imagine how hard it could be with an emulation layer such a Wine...

It isn't that hard to setup:

  http://jan.kneschke.de/2013/7/24/building-in-wine/

(just skip the cmake part as it isn't needed for glib/gtk)

Python is for gobject-introspection.

regards,
  Jan