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 _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-dev
