Comments on: Jhbuild Anything on Windows - In 12 Steps

By: Sam Thursfield: L’été de le code, premier semaine | Techie News

Sam Thursfield: L’été de le code, premier semaine | Techie News — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:06:31 +0000

[...] I am talking about mostly things I didn’t do of course, I just added some cruft on top of all the stuff John Stowers did. Anyway, it’s at the point where with git HEAD and this ugly patch the infrastructure [...]

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» Back To Reality Johns Blog — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:48:51 +0000

[...] and Ubuntu things. I got caught up in moving Conduit to GNOME SVN. Then I got distracted by JHBuild on windows. Finally I lost my nerve and went on holiday, not touching a computer for 3 weeks. Enough is [...]

By: woot

woot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:22:35 +0000

Oh and I wasn’t using your wrapper or whatever else you’ve got in your bzr repo. I suppose most of that is really for the jhbuild system itself?

By: woot

woot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:21:39 +0000

FWIW goocanvas compiles and seems to run fine on windows, although I did start with the precompiled gtk+ and friends from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/wfdownloads/viewcat.php?cid=14. There is, however, some makefile/libtool/? issue with pygoocanvas. It’ll compile, however ‘make install’ fails, and it doesn’t actually produce a PE object file for use with python. Sadly, I don’t know enough to fix this problem. I’ll be mighty interested in a pygoocanvas for windows, if you ever get things to that point.

By: liberforce

liberforce — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:54:18 +0000

Great, but maybe this would be better on live.gnome.org on the CategoryDeveloperTutorial category…

By: Murray Cumming

Murray Cumming — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:50:06 +0000

Well done. I guess this is some patches to jhbuild and a jhbuild moduleset? Will you try to add this to jhbuild itself? Please CC me on the bug if you do.

By: john.stowers

john.stowers — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:05:21 +0000

@snark

I started with a working cross compile setup by Alberto Ruiz - i,e, it already worked. The point of all this was;
1) Im going to be home at my parents (which have a windows box). I want to be able to hack on conduit. To do that I needed to build pygoocanvas for windows.
2) I could not get this to work with cross compilation. The linux python install doesnt ship the windows dll and headers to cross compile against. I also think there are some runtime issues regarding python built against mscvrt and the mingw version of it
3) I thougt it would be good to make building Gtk apps on windows easy - my community service if you will

By: Snark

Snark — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:42:32 +0000

We build ekiga on win32 by cross-compilation — because it’s more scriptable! (and faster to build, too)

I did the original win32 port on a (lent) win32 box with mingw, then made it cross-compile. Now a bunch of others improved it to a point I can’t say I know much how it’s done

Would it be possible to make all of what you did work using cross-compilation, now it mostly works natively?