Re: Building gdk-pixbuf loaders as static libs

[Fan Chun-wei <fanc999 yahoo com tw>]

Hello John,

The Visual Studio 2008+ builds (in build\win32) do that, so let's take a 
look in build\win32\vs9\gdk-pixbuf-build-defines.vsprops in your git 
checkout:

Find the tags parts that is like GDIP_MACROS, NOGDIP_MACROS and 
MODULAR_MACROS, you will see a bunch of INCLUDE_xxx's there where xxx is 
the module that you want to build directly into your GDK-Pixbuf DLL 
build.  Normally you would want to
include modules as much as possible in your build, but note the following:

-For INCLUDE_png, INCLUDE_jasper, INCLUDE_jpeg, INCLUDE_tiff you will 
need the libpng, jasper (JPEG 2000 library), IJG JPEG (or libjpeg turbo) 
and libtiff libraries respectively.  Those aren't hard to build with 
Visual Studio.
-Although there is an INCLUDE_gdiplus option, I would recommend not 
using it as the progression of Windows itself caused it to not to work 
very well (GDI+ is deprecated by Microsoft), plus you will definitely 
need to use the PNG module anyways.
-The INCLUDE_gdiplus option should not be defined with any of these: 
INCLUDE_bmp, INCLUDE_gif, INCLUDE_ico, INCLUDE_jasper, INCLUDE_jpeg, 
INCLUDE_tiff, if you still decide to use the GDI+ module.
-If you are planning to build with jasper support, you need to define 
JAS_WIN_MSVC_BUILD as well.
-Do a search in gdk-pixbuf\Makefile.am for the complete list of 
INCLUDE_xxx's, in case not everything you need is listed in 
build\win32\vs9\gdk-pixbuf-build-defines.vsprops.

Hope this helps.

With blessings
---
Hi,

Just wondering, is there any chance that 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739778 can be looked at so 
that builds on Visual Studio can continue as usual?

And, in commit 852234f, I think the problem is only partially fixed, I 
think we also need to #include <glib/gi18n.h> for the i18n macros to be 
found and compiled properly.

With blessings, thank you!