Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 13:55 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> 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).

That does sound necessary. People would otherwise sometimes be forced to
link to both, which is probably unpleasant. Can you take care of that,
please, Armin?

And please make sure that those improvements are in the wiki, if Philip
doesn't do that.

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