Dear Lists, Please Excuse the longwinded cross posting, I don't know the best place to post this one, so here is the shotgun effect.
I really like the great work that has been done on the mingw under debian, finally a great way to write windows programs, not in windows. Hopefully we can get all the cool gnome apps running under windows (or even under using SDL for graphics for that matter (think GNOME SDL! (Cool :) ))). For the Funky DIA diagramming editor that i would like to get running under windows, i need libiconv/gettext/glib/gtk/libxml2/pango and others I dont know yet. I have heard that tor l. has all of of this compiling for mingw32. I have been trying to follow in the footsteps of tor and hand in porting glibc 2.0.4 to mingw32 cross compiler on debian 3.0 + unstable packages. I have gotten libiconv and gettext ported with the help of many nice people on the irc.openprojects.net/#sdl (ali-g, Diablo, LIM (sorry I cannot spell) ) . First I recompiled ported them on mingw32, the ported over. Testing under wine and win3k is running fine. http://LibSDL.org has a well supported toolchain for win32 cross compilation. I wonder if anyone has ported this before? I think tor has done all of this... In anycase I have been following the well written instructions hans and tor on the glib win32 readme. I had to modify the configure and tell it it is not in a cross compiler around line 10000, it wanted to check function prototypes, so I let it use wine to do that. I dont know if I should use the makefile or the makefile.ming, if i need to run libtoolize and automake on gettext and libiconv/libcharset. Hopefully I dont need to do that. The problem is with the resource compiler : gmodule-win32res.lo and gobject-win32res.lo are dependant on the command : ../build/win32/lt-compile-resource gmodule.rc gmodule-win32res.lo which complains that : Using zero as build number Worse, the windres program is not found, but it can be configured in, I took mine from the same place as the compiler : The /usr/local/cross-tools/bin/i386-mingw32msvc-windres is not producing proper object files, but I think it is the right one to use. here is an example build : /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -mpentium -fnative-struct --verbose -g -O2 -fnative-struct -Wall -D_REENTRANT -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/libiconv/lib -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/gettext/lib --verbose -o libgmodule-2.0.la -rpath /home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/glib/lib -Wl,--export-dynamic -version-info 0:4:0 -export-dynamic -no-undefined -export-symbols gmodule.def gmodule.lo gmodule-win32res.lo ../glib/libglib-2.0.la -liconv -lintl -liconv # Here is the link command that needs the windres gcc -mpentium -fnative-struct --verbose -Wl,--base-file,.libs/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll-base -Wl,-e,_DllMainCRTStartup@12 -o .libs/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll gmodule.lo gmodule-win32res.lo -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/libiconv/lib -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/gettext/lib -Wl,--export-dynamic it tell mes : Reading specs from /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.3-6/specs gcc version 2.95.3-6 (mingw special) here is the full link command : /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.3-6/../../../../i386-mingw32msvc/bin/ld -Bdynamic -o .libs/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll /usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.3-6/../../../../i386-mingw32msvc/lib/crt2.o -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/libiconv/lib -L/home/mdupont/introspector/dia/prefix/gettext/lib -L/usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.3-6 -L/usr/local/cross-tools/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32msvc/2.95.3-6/../../../../i386-mingw32msvc/lib --base-file .libs/libgmodule-2.0-0.dll-base -e _DllMainCRTStartup@12 gmodule.lo gmodule-win32res.lo --export-dynamic -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmsvcrt And then the error : gmodule-win32res.lo: file not recognized: File format not recognized Well that pretty much describes my problem, I hope to hear from anyone that I am doing it much to compilcated and can do it much easier some other way. Best regards and keep up the good work. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
