Re: Building glib-genmarshal (while building glib)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 16:45 +0100, John Emmas wrote:
> On 12/08/2017 14:04, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> > > From the news file for version 2.53.4:
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/NEWS
> >
> > * glib-genmarshal and glib-mkenums have been rewritten in python.
> >   Every effort has been made to keep compatibility. Please report
> >   problems related to these tools
>  
> Thanks Sebastien,
>
> Although I'm building with MSVC I don't use the official MSVC
> projects (mostly because I need to build 3 x targets:- 1) Debug
> build, 2) Release build and 3) Debuggable Release build).  I've
> figured out how to generate the file called "glib-genmarshal" -
> namely,

It'll be generated by configure, simply replace the python executable:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/gobject/glib-genmarshal.in

>         python.exe  gen_util_scripts.py --type=glib-genmarshal --
> version=$(GlibVersion)
>
> But I'm then stuck...  I can't figure out how to use that file to
> generate 'glib-genmarshal.c' (and/or any other files which need to
> get generated from it).

There's no C to generate, it's been ported to Python.

>   Can someone tell me the relevant command?  It isn't likely that
> this issue will affect anyone else.  Thanks,