Hi,
i have done some work to build darktable for windows. Now i can build it
(without maps and lua) on windows and first test show no problems. I
have done this in first for my private use. But i share this, so other
can test and use it. At this time it is only for developres, and not
ready for end-users.
I hope that i can find enough other interested developers who can help
to test and stabilize it.
You find my changes i the branch 'darktable-2.0.x-win' in my github fork
'https://github.com/jibaer/darktable.git'.
While building the windows version i have found some issues in the
darktable-source:
- In common/film.c function film_recursive_get_files() there is a
mistake in the call to function g_build_filename(). It is called with
the same parameters as g_build_pathname(), but according to the glib
manual it does not need the first parameter (G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S). Under
windows this will produce an invalid filename with a leading slash (like
/c:/user/...). Under *ix this no problem because it will simple double
the leading slash of an absolute path what the os ignores.
- In common/darktable.c function strip_semicolons_from_keymap() there is
only a test for the result of fgetc() !=eof. But on mingw this doesnt
work, and it must test for feof() ==0. Without the test for feof() the
result is an infinite loop...
- With gcc 6.x the search-path for include-files is very important and
the includes <cmath> and <cstdlib> will not work if the default search
order for the system-include-directorys is changed. Because the
cmake-files insert some include-paths with the system-attributes they
change the default-search-order and the build will fail with the error :
file <stdlib.h> not found. On my mingw-build i have found a solution in
an edit to src/CMakeLists.txt that avoids to do use the system-attribute
while adding the include-path for PThreads.
I hope you will accept my contribution and dont take it hostile. And
with the help from more developers some day there will be an official
version of darktable for windows. To use another raw-photo application
is not an alternative because DT has at least two outstanding features:
- The profile-based noise-reduction is really great
- The mask feature is also really great
Greetings from Berlin
Jan Ingwer Baer
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