[Glade-users] Compiling Glade 3.16.1 for Windows

[Domenico Ferrari]

I agree with Tristan.
It's better to choose a build and make it "official" so every effort for
building, patching and developing goes to one project rather than be
scattered all around.

Bye.
Domenico



2014-03-06 13:04 GMT+01:00 Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>
:

>  On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:15 PM, LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 06.03.2014 14:41, Domenico Ferrari wrote:
> >> On 2014-03-05 17:57 GMT+01:00 LRN wrote:
> >>> On 05.03.2014 20:31, Domenico Ferrari wrote:
> >>>> Hi. Due to the lack of a precompiled version of Glade 3.16.1
> >>>> for Win32 machines, I decided to compile it on my own.
> >>>>
> >>>> Do I have to compile on a Windows machine?
> >>> No
> >>>
> >>>> Is it better to have a Linux cross-compiler?
> >>> Depends
> >>>
> >>>> I'm thinking about compiling on Windows and making binaries for
> >>>> the dependencies also.
> >>> How much time are you expecting to sink into that? What is your
> >>> ultimate goal?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Note that you may be able to find pre-compiled Glade &
> >>> dependencies, if you look outside of gtk.org. Google for two
> >>> keywords: "glade-3.16.1" and "mingw".
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> I have downloaded precompiled Glade and all dependencies from
> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/
> > They have a package manager somewhere (or so i've been told), a port
> > of pacman from Arch. Be sure to use that (if you can't find it, go ask
> > them).
> >
> >>
> >> The gtk demos are working but Glade is looping, eating all CPU and
> >> no windows out.
> >
> > If you want support for their builds, go ask them. They have a mailing
> > list too, and alexey is available on #mingw-w64 @ irc.oftc.net .
> >
> > Me, i'm maintaining sbuild[1]. If you use that - then you can ask me
> > for support.
> >
> >>
> >> If there are precompiled Glade version for Windows, why not list
> >> them on the glade official site?
> > Because no one from the Glade dev team makes these builds, therefore
> > they are not inclined to provide the binaries or support them. GTK+
> > stack includes a whole lot of dependencies, and since other people
> > took up the task of building and packaging the binaries (for better or
> > worse), Glade devs may have little incentive to do anything.
>
> FWIW, we would certainly welcome announcements of the win32 build
> releases on the glade mailing lists, as well as updates to the website
> (i.e. the news section and the page where we tried in the past to link
> to the latest win32 releases)... the Glade website is hosted in git as
> the 'glade-web' module (simply committing and pushing causes the
> website to auto-update).
>
> I think the major issue here is that there have been various projects
> building for win32 and we just need some consensus on what is the
> current 'official' one - ideally I would like them to be hosted somewhere
> under here:
>     ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/glade/
>
> (but in the distant past there has been a sourceforge project which was
> very consistent with wrapping up GTK+/glade all in one bundles which was
> pretty popular).
>
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
>
>
> >
> > Aside from mingw-builds and my own project, there may be Fedora-mingw
> > builds somewhere, and Tarnyko built the whole GTK stack a while back
> > (not sure if glade-3.16 was included). There may be others too.
> >
> > [1] https://www.gitorious.org/sbuild
> >
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