Re: [Planner Dev] Win32 Port, Part Deux

[Jani tiainen <redetin luukku com>]

Richard Hult wrote:

> On tis, 2004-08-24 at 02:06 +0300, Jani tiainen wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > Been a bit busy with three things: first my wife got fancy idea to 
> > redecorate our home... Second is that my wife's laptop let the smoke out 
> > - literally. Never really seen before, but a little smoke came up from 
> > keyboard when starting her laptop - well now I've been building new 
> > system for her.
>
>
> Ah, it's one of those old steam-driven laptops? ;)

No, a smoke-driven one, like all laptops are...

> > Third, and most interesting one is that I've been able to compile 
> > necessary libraries with truly _native_ win32 support. No need for 
> > cygwin or such. =)
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that now I'm able to do that long waited native 
> > Planner-win32.
>
>
> Sounds great! Does that mean that the huge cygwin DLL isn't needed? Is
> it a lot of trouble to setup, or could it be worth to post build
> instructions for those daring people who'd like to do the same, and
> maybe help out?

Well not huge cygwin.dll, (which is not really a propblem) but no longer 
need to have unix-stylish directory tree. It still needs a bloat of 
other libraries, just like Linux counterpart.

Well build instructions are really simple and when I have time I'll post 
them on web. I hope that I have time to put a real webserver @home...

> > Only thing that will need really lot of hacking is printing, but that's 
> > another story.
>
>
> OK. Do you know if it's just the actual communication to printers that
> is not working? If so, we could concentrate on getting output to a file
> (ps/pdf) working first. That would be a pretty good start.

Not sure. GIMP does use GTK+ printing, so there might be something fancy 
in libgnomeprint and libgnomeprintui... At least I had to comment out a 
numerous small things...

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Jani Tiainen