Hi Lothar,
Note: You may very well want to build the GTK+ stack, with perhaps the
dependencies, as far as possible with the same version of Visual C++.
In brief the things in the Project files go on like the following [refer to
build\win32\$(VS_VERSION)\README.txt in GLib 2.28.x for more details]*.
I am currently working on an article in live.gnome.org on explaining how to
build the GTK+ with Visual C++ in detail, and hopefully I could have it
ready in the next few weeks-will let you know about this.
-Unpack the latest GTK+ stack source files in a folder, say c:\gtk_build,
including GLib-2.28.x, Pango-1.28.x, ATK-1.32.0, GDK-Pixbuf-2.22.1 and
GTK+-2.24.x.
-Unpack the built dependencies, with latest stable versions as far as
possible unless otherwise noted (zlib, libpng-1.4.x, freetype,
fontconfig, cairo, expat, gettext-runtime; libtiff, IJG libjpeg,
libjasper if not using GDI+ for GDK-Pixbuf, and optionally PCRE)
in c:\gtk_build\$(VS_VERSION)\$(PlatformType)* as follows.
The *.lib files in c:\gtk_build\$(VS_VERSION)\$(PlatformType)\lib
The *.dll files in c:\gtk_build\$(VS_VERSION)\$(PlatformType)\bin
The *.h files in c:\gtk_build\$(VS_VERSION)\$(PlatformType)\include
You might want to grab the prebuilt windows binaries for gettext-runtime,
freetype, expat and fontconfig from ftp.gnome.org and unpack these archives
accordingly. The other packages have built-in support for compiling on
MSVC, BTW. Let me know if you need help building Cairo on Visual C++-
Cairo needs to be built after GLib, and note that Pango requires Cairo,
if you are planning to use GTK+-3.x as you probably have mentioned.
-Build GLib, it will build out of the box for Visual C++ 2008-use the
configs without _ExtPCRE unless you are willing to build the PCRE (8.12+)
DLL using the Visual C++ version you are using. Visual C++ 2010 support
should be in the next stable GLib 2.28.x-let me know if you need help for
that in a hurry. The headers, DLLs, EXEs, LIBs will be copied to the
right places when the build completes.
-Build Pango, ATK-1.x and GDK-Pixbuf--let me know if you need further
instructions about them, as the latest stable versions do not contain
Visual C++ Project files in them yet (they are already upstream, so
their unstable, and then eventually stable, releases will contain them).
-Finally, build GTK+-2.24.x (and perhaps 3.x-2.24.x and 3.x can be
co-existing). Let me know if you are using Visual C++ 2010 and need help.
*VS_VERSION is either vs9 for Visual C++ 2008 or vs10 for Visual C++ 2010
PlatformType is either Win32 or x64
Side note, I am also one who is keen to build the GTK+ stack using Visual
Studio, and this has been made possible through countless efforts by many,
especially tml and Hans Breuer. So I am the one who now attempts to keep
the Visual C++ project files up-to-date in the GTK+ stack.
Sorry for the longish post, but hope this helps.
God Bless,
Fan, Chun-wei
>
> There seems to be so much not to work. Can you provide a
> combination
> of the required source files in one bundle. And defining a
> toplevel
> directory structure (like TCL/TK did it 15 years ago) and
> using this
> in the makefiles would be good. So a single environment
> variable would
> be everything to get a compiled system. Well, i know i'm
> dreaming but
> maybe some day ....
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