Here you have: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620566 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733535 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693531
And here you have some downstream patches: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gobject-introspection Cheers. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > I can take a look at the gobject-introspection work. Bugzilla links? > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro > <nacho.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Jasper St. Pierre < > jstpie...@mecheye.net> > > wrote: > >> > >> Would it be possible for me to fund / help maintain official GNOME > >> Win32 bundles and an SDK? I'd love to improve Windows support of GTK+, > >> but I'm never sure where the status is. Last time I tried jhbuild it > >> failed on something early on -- I believe fontconfig, so that was a > >> bummer. > > > > > > Well the current status is quite good compared with how it was a few > years > > ago. > > The main problems are still: > > 1. that we have lots of downstream patches still on msys2, even though I > > spent quite a lot of time pushing them upstream. > > 2. building anything out of git is a nightmare, you need a tarball or > > everything gets in your way > > 3. gobject-introspection could get quite a bit of love for windows. There > > are though some patches in bugzilla that are waiting some review. > > 4. jhbuild would require some serious work. > > > > Cheers. > > > > > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > Hi; > >> > > >> > On 11 June 2015 at 13:44, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> > >> >> wrote: > >> >>> > >> >>> The current stance of everyone involved in the Windows backend for > >> >>> GLib and GTK+ is to stop advertising binary builds for Windows — as > we > >> >>> don't do that for any other platform, and nobody sticks around long > >> >>> enough to keep doing that or to set up a continuous integration > build > >> >>> for GTK. > >> >> > >> >> Stop advertising == stop supporting? > >> > > >> > If I wanted to say "stop supporting", I would have said that. Not that > >> > we *ever* "supported" binary builds, on any platform. If you want > >> > commercial support, you should contract somebody. > >> > > >> > Currently, we advertise ad hoc Windows builds on gtk.org; those are > >> > out of date, and lack many of the bug fixes that went into GTK. This > >> > situation is confusing for application developers, and makes the > >> > project look bad. It also reflect badly on the great work that > >> > developers have been doing in order to make GTK work well on Windows. > >> > > >> > On top of that, we don't offer binary builds for any other platform, > >> > and instead rely on distributors — like Homebrew on Mac; the *BSD > >> > ports; or the various Linux distributions — to provide binary builds > >> > for them. Windows is an anomaly, mostly because there weren't > >> > good/usable software distributions in the past. This has now changed, > >> > and it's a good thing to ensure that developers on Windows get > >> > reliable, up to date software. > >> > > >> >>> Developers using the G* core platform libraries on Windows are > >> >>> strongly encouraged to use the MSYS2 distribution: > >> >>> > >> >>> https://msys2.github.io/ > >> >> > >> >> Like Git? Ship 200Mb of "additional value" on top? Just for > comparison > >> >> Mercurial installation is 37Mb compared with 267Mb of Git. And that > for > >> >> every GTK application? > >> > > >> > MSYS2 is for developers, not for end users. > >> > > >> > You're supposed to set up the development enviroment on *your* > >> > development machine(s); once you have built your application, you can > >> > take your binary artefacts, including the DLLs you depend on, put them > >> > into an installer, and let your users download the installer — which > >> > is exactly what you should have done in the past, even with pre-built > >> > DLLs. The intended change is for application developers to get > >> > pre-built, up to date binaries using MSYS2, instead of downloading zip > >> > files from gtk.org that we cannot reliably keep up to date. > >> > > >> > Telling your users to download your application; download DLLs from > >> > gtk.org; shove them into some directory; and, finally, hope for the > >> > best, was never a good software distribution mechanism. > >> > > >> >>> This will provide you with pre-built packages that are known to work > >> >>> and maintained. It also allows you to build your own packages on top > >> >>> of it, and create an installer from the result. > >> >> > >> >> Can GTK be cross-compiled for Windows? > >> > > >> > Yes, it can, and it routinely is. > >> > > >> >>> What the GTK team would love, on the other hand, is somebody putting > >> >>> the effort in setting up and maintaining a continuous integration > >> >>> service — similar to https://build.gnome.org — for Windows builds. > >> >>> This way we would be able to catch build regressions after every > >> >>> commit, without relying on the application developers to file bugs. > >> >> > >> >> http://www.appveyor.com/ if using closed source service is okay. > >> > > >> > No, it's really not — especially if it has to run on the gnome.org > >> > infrastructure. > >> > > >> > Ciao, > >> > Emmanuele. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > https://www.bassi.io > >> > [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > gtk-devel-list mailing list > >> > gtk-devel-l...@gnome.org > >> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jasper > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gtk-list mailing list > >> gtk-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ignacio Casal Quinteiro > > > > -- > Jasper > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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