Re: [Planner Dev] Planner on Windows

[Paul Bohme <paul bohme brivo com>]

Francisco Moraes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been working on getting Planner to run on Windows and I have been 
> successful so far, including libgnomeprint with the Postscript and PDF 
> outputs (I am working on the Windows direct printing, but it will take 
> a while).
>
> The changes needed are not too big and some can make my life easier:
>
> - define all directories in the config.h or Makefiles instead of code 
> (example, DATADIR "/planner/dtds" should be avoided)
> - avoid using gnome specific functions, like GnomeEntry in the MS 
> Project XML import plugin (anyway, this will be obsolete once GTK 2.6 
> is in use)
> - can we swtich the about dialog to a custom one?
> - libgnome-vfs doesn't really seem to help much as it is only used by 
> the XSL module, so I had to change it
>
> Help is still a todo in my list, but all the other function seems to 
> be working nice with a native compile.
>
> If anyone is interested in helping out, let me know. I know this has 
> been attempted before, but now it is a lot easier without the 
> libbonobo dependencies

I would love to - I've been campaigning to get my boss to try planner, 
but he uses Windows it so far hasn't been an option.  We're a small 
group, so bloatware like MS Project is useless - Planner is a perfect tool.

Safe assumption that if I fire up a Windows machine and put Cygwin on 
it, I can get a copy of your sources and build?  Otherwise, what would 
it take?  (I live in a Linux world, but keep a captive w2k box for the 
odd occasion.)

> I will keep everyone posted. I don't have place to put any "test" 
> binaries but I will try later once I get further along. I need to 
> merge the 0.13 changes (if any) since 0.12.94.
>
> Francisco 


Am so glad someone got the ball rolling on this one, can't wait to see 
it (and show it to the aforementioned boss..)

 -P