Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 18:49 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote:
> On the "Building gtkmm on Windows" web page I note the statement:
> 
> "We suggest that you use MSYS to build gtkmm on Windows."
> 
> This statement can only be be interpreted as:

This is meant as: "If you want to build gtkmm with MinGW, then we
recommend using MSYS to do so", since it is in the "Using MinGW"
section. I made it more clear on the Wiki page.

> "We suggest that you build your project, gtkmm and another other C++ libraries
> you intend to build from source with MSYS."
> 
> Building any C++ project component with MINGW/MSYS means a total commitment
> to that environment/build system for all C++ project components.  C++ projects
> and the libraries that they use must be built with the same compiler, due to
> name mangling, exception handling, stack issues, etc.
> 
> "The MSVC++ DLLs have been built with Visual C++ 2005."
> 
> is fine, but better would be:
> 
> "The MSVC++ DLLs have been built with Visual C++ 2005 and are linked to the
>  MS C/C++ runtime DLLs: MSVCR80.DLL / MSVCP80.DLL."

It's a Wiki. Feel free to improve things yourself.

> In my case, my Windows system has a later runtime environment: MSVCR90.DLL /
> MSVCP90.DLL (MS Visual Studio 2008), so I have to recompile anyway. I think
> cautioning people to verify which MS C/C++ runtime they have: 70/80/90, etc.
> before using the binary installer would be a good thing.

I don't have too much experience with different runtimes, but I
succeeded in building a small example application with Visual Studio
2008 against the binaries of the installer, which have been built with
Visual Studio 2005. Doesn't this work in general?

I think the MSVCR80 runtime files are still shipped with Visual Studio
2008.

> Anyway, I have built each of: gtkmm/glibmm/sigc++/cairomm sucessfully with
> MS VC++ 2008.  I just wish there were a way to automate the installation of
> the development files to a target path from that gtkmm source tree.

If that's indeed a problem, then we probably need to ship separate files
for both Visual Studio 2005 (linked against *80.DLL) and 2008 (linked
against *90.DLL).

> Phil
> 
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