Hi,

On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 19:27 -0800, Eric Wedel wrote:
> Nice progress, for sure.  :-)
> 
> > the infamous Windows-version
> 
> A year or so ago I ported Rawstudio using a pure cygwin environment.
> Worked, though there were some obscure package dependencies which I
> unfortunately neglected to keep notes on.  And then the result was
> trapped in cygwin's "chroot-like" environment, which is pretty much
> useless if you want a native windows app.

Yep, Cygwin is great, but it's not really native.

> Recently I started the process again, and I suspect that cygwin will
> not work so well this time around, due to growth in the program and
> that dreaded chroot jail.  [All of cygwin's pre-built packages like gconf
> and the various graphics format libraries presumably are subject to the
> same limitation.]
> 
> A better approach might be to use the wireshark model, where selected
> tools from cygwin are employed, but the overall build uses a (very!)
> different compiler:
>   http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChSetupWin32.html
> 
> If I have some free time over the holidays, I may continue my efforts.
> But I'm by no means any sort of expert on gtk, windows or otherwise.
> So I mention this in case somebody else feels inspired.  :-)

Klaus Post and I did some experiments with devcpp a half year ago or so:
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

At revision 1195 we had a sort of workable build on Windows. But we was
experiencing strange crashes and weird lock-ups. It wasn't really
useable for anything... Maybe rev1195 could be a good starting-point?

> Thanks for all your work on Rawstudio!

/abrander



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