Hi! Almost all features exept translations can be used & developed on windows. I have a corresponding local install, but I'm not sure that I exactly remember all steps.
Here is steps which I remember: 1. install msys2 from https://www.msys2.org/ After installation it provides 3 environments: ** msys2 (unix-like environment, useful for running unix scrips without huge changes) ** mingw32 (32bit dev environment - used to build windows apps like meld, for 32 bit binaries) ** mingw64 (32bit dev environment - used to build windows apps like meld, for 64 bit binaries) Most of the time mingw64 is the best choice 2. install some packages to get dependencies (from mingw64 shell): $ pacman -Syu $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gedit mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject mingw-w64-x86_64-gsettings-desktop-schemas I do NOT advise installing meld package via pacman. It may conflict with local sources tree. 3. Now you can run meld (Start with meld-3-20 branch may be simpler. Current master may contain some extra steps/changes to run on windows). $ cd /d/apps/meld-checkout #your folder with meld checkout "/d" is drive D: $ #maybe "glib-compile-schemas data" needed here, not sure $ python3 bin/meld (some translation-related warnings may appear and main meld will appear after several seconds) 4. To build zip and msi package refer to command line in the .gitlab-ci.yml. Something like: $ glib-compile-schemas data $ python3 setup_win32.py bdist_dumb --bdist-dir build\bdist.mingw\msi --keep-temp bdist_msi --keep-temp This will prepare zip and msi in dist folder. > Hi y'all, > > Can one develop and build this in Windows, or do I need to use Linux? If it > needs to be Linux as I suspect, does anyone have a virtual machine they don't > mind giving me, by chance? It'd save me a bit of time, though it's not > necessary. If it can be built in Windows, how? I keep getting this error: > >> compiling gresources >> glib-compile-resources --target=build\data\org.gnome.meld.gresource >> --sourcedir=meld/resources meld/resources/meld.gresource.xml >> error: command 'glib-compile-resources' failed: No such file or directory > > Have a delightful day! > > Sincerely, > Waldo _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list meld-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
