Hello, following the instructions from http://kemovitra.blogspot.com/2009/06/compiling-gtk-2-for-windows.html i succeeded in compiling the full gtk-stack these days with MinGW/Msys on WindowsXP SP3. Hopefully this page will prevail. I've encountered some problems of course and made one or two silly errors. Here is a small bug in the build sources: make install doesn't copy zlib.h and zconf.h to /usr/include. But doing this manually was enough for continuing. But: At step 11 - atk - compilation failed for the first time. It is here, where more than the MinGW/Msys core is needed, the perl script glib-mkenums has to be run at the start of make. Apparently perl tries to write something into /usr/bin/env, which doesn't exist. Creating it manually - from the msys shell or not - changes the error message to include "Permission denied" then (of course i did all this with admin privileges). Searching the net i found out that getting msys's chmod to work on XP is a well-known problem. Apparently nobody has a definite answer to it. There are files atk-enum-types.c and .h in the sources, headed by /* Generated data (by glib-mkenums) */. Having gained trust in the quality of the code i proceeded with make --ignore-errors. All the same - the existence of enum-types.c and .h too - with pango and finally gtk. And the libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll thus won works well with my large python applications. But it doesn't work completely, i got the g_loadable_icon_load error, which is discussed in a mozilla context elsewhere, when trying to use anything that requires gtk's stock icons. Thus i cannot see widgets with gtk-demo, and my apps are crashing on right-clicks in Entries. Of course i am not sure, that this is related to the compilation problem (perhaps not). At this point nothing forces me to use the self-compiled binaries. But having worked a day on it, i'd be very fond of seeing a clean compilation process. Is there any way to work around these perl scripts ? Unfortunately i couldn't find any line starting them in the Makefile, in config.status or elsewhere. I'd also like to use the MinGW/Msys core only. Thanks for your attention, Joost _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
