Comments on: Jhbuild Adventures on Windows

By: john.stowers

john.stowers — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:04:56 +0000

I think I really need to go back and see if the note: Extra Setup for Swig/autotools makes any difference

By: » Jhbuild and Windows - We Meet Again Johns Blog

» Jhbuild and Windows - We Meet Again Johns Blog — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:56:22 +0000

[...] on from my last post I have continued work on getting Jhbuild to run on windows (within msys). The basic problem which I [...]

By: Sergey Scobich

Sergey Scobich — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:17 +0000

Hi,
There exists prebuild packages of gtk/glib and other packages on oficial gnome site

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/

except for (py)goocanvas, which was the point in all of this, and to learn — John

By: Alberto Ruiz

Alberto Ruiz — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:58:02 +0000

Great work john!

I’ve come up to the conclusion that, sadly, autotools are the major blocker here. The unix shell on top of windows it’s simply evil, that’s why I’ve been getting interested in waf lately.

Doing waf ports of glib would enable both to compile it natively on windows and stress test waf for that matter (I wouldn’t care that much to make the waf port work on unix, since the autotools scripts are extensively tested on those platforms).

On the other hand I think that we need to add support for binaries tarballs/zips to jhbuild, compiling libjpeg, gettext and the like on windows it’s a pain, and at the end you end up not being binary compatible with the already existing gtk binaries.

It would be cool to get something like this working with jhbuild, but I haven’t found time to create a new tag handler for the module sets:
http://www.gnome.org/~aruiz/win32/

By: apap

apap — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:45:23 +0000

fyi, windows handles / aswell as \ at least in cmd.exe, and inside the internal api. cygwin is evil and crosscompiling from linux should be much easier as you don’t have to feel filthy while doing it.

if i ever get rid of some warez so that i have space enough to try out jhbuild with windows target i’ll give you a ping.

By: Ali Sabil

Ali Sabil — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:43:30 +0000

Hello,

I worked a while ago on a fork of jhbuild able to build directly windows .msi and .msm files.

you can check it out from this bzr branch:
bzr branch http://people.collabora.co.uk/~asabil/bzr/buildows/

I hope this can be useful to you.