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Building of win32 applicationsHello *,
I am trying to build up some gtkmm applications under Windows environtment with DevC and MinGW interface and it works successfully. Unfortunatelly on my windows machine I have installed Cygwin right now because of my work needs them. When I install DevC and MinGW then I can not run Cygwin anymore. Did you met with this? I have only one question on you: What do you prefer? Building under MinGW and DevC or building under Cygwin? What are you experiences? E.g. Gnucash, Scribus, Inkscape or other programs does not use Cygwin. Do you know how they are ported? What are using - another way? Thank you in advance Petr ______________________________________ Nakupte vše od MP3 přehrávače po auto za ceny již od 1 Kč! Nejlepší nástroj pro rychlé a bezpečné obchodování na internetu. Více než 200 000 atraktivních aukcí. Dražte také! http://aukro.tiscali.cz/ _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsPetr Hracek wrote:
> I am trying to build up some gtkmm applications under Windows environtment > with DevC and MinGW interface and it works successfully. I am doing almost the same, though I am not using DevC. > Unfortunatelly on my windows machine I have installed > Cygwin right now because of my work needs them. > > When I install DevC and MinGW then I can not run Cygwin anymore. Did you > met with this? That is strange. My work machine has both MinGW and Cygwin and I have not had any trouble with this. > I have only one question on you: > What do you prefer? Building under MinGW and DevC or building under Cygwin? > What are you experiences? > E.g. Gnucash, Scribus, Inkscape or other programs does not use Cygwin. Do > you know how they are ported? What are using - another way? That's five questions. Which one do you want :-) ? I suppose that would depend on what you want. are these graphical or console applications? With MinGW you get native Windows programs. With a graphical program on Cygwin you would be using X11. Since my programs are graphical and I like the idea of having a native Windows program, I am using MinGW with gtkmm and glade to develop the GUIs. Damon Register _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsOn Wednesday 09 July 2008, Petr Hracek wrote:
> You mean that when I will develop GUIs I do not need DevC? Only MinGW (of > course with gtkmm and glade) is neccessary? Am I right? That depends a little on your definition of "necessary". However, when I develop GUI applications for Linux I don't use any integrated package. I edit with Nedit or Vim, I build with (auto)make. I don't even use Glade, preferring to code up the GTKmm stuff by hand. I see no reason the same approach couldn't be used on Windows - Notepad++ or similar for editing and the MinGW environment for make. That said, DevCpp was an easier way to get all the dependencies established when I tried porting an application over. HTH, Rob _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsPetr Hracek wrote:
> Sorry, I will try to explain you detailly. > I would like to develop some GUI interfaces (not only one). > Program could be runnable as from Linux as from Windows environtment so it is a cross platform app. I suppose your choice would still depend on what your app does and uses. Though I am not certain, I wonder if using MinGW might increase the risk of having code that would be Windows specific while using Cygwin might lead you to code that is more unix generic. Perhaps someone else can answer that better than I could. > You mean that when I will develop GUIs I do not need DevC? Only MinGW (of > course with gtkmm and glade) is neccessary? Am I right? Correct, although I suppose that DevC provides some conveniences that make the development easier. As Rob Pearce said, you can do without Glade but I am no expert at hand coding and have no desire to develop that way so for me, Glade is necessary. So, with MinGW, gtkmm and Glade I can do well enough with my development. Damon Register _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsDamon Register wrote:
> Petr Hracek wrote: >> Sorry, I will try to explain you detailly. >> I would like to develop some GUI interfaces (not only one). >> Program could be runnable as from Linux as from Windows environtment > so it is a cross platform app. I suppose your choice would still depend > on what your app does and uses. Though I am not certain, I wonder if > using MinGW might increase the risk of having code that would be Windows > specific while using Cygwin might lead you to code that is more unix > generic. Perhaps someone else can answer that better than I could. > >> You mean that when I will develop GUIs I do not need DevC? Only MinGW >> (of >> course with gtkmm and glade) is neccessary? Am I right? > Correct, although I suppose that DevC provides some conveniences that > make the development easier. As Rob Pearce said, you can do without > Glade but I am no expert at hand coding and have no desire to develop > that way so for me, Glade is necessary. So, with MinGW, gtkmm and Glade > I can do well enough with my development. > > Damon Register > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list > [http://www.codeblocks.org/] as my GDI and MinGW. First I created a directory for all the UNIX-Windows programs were to reside, I called it XWin, a long time ago it was called XWin32. Second I installed MinGW and then MSYS, be careful when MSYS ask you for the path MinGW was installed in. Then I installed Code::Blocks, but not the one that already includes MinGW After that is GTKmm and you are all set. Why not Cygwin? in my case is because I don't want to bother with the installation of the Cygwin dlls, that's it. I hope this helped you -- Happiness has many doors, and when one of them closes another opens, yet we spent so much time looking at the one that is shut that we don't see the one that just opened.. _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsOn Wednesday 09 July 2008, Damon Register wrote:
> Though I am not certain, I wonder if > using MinGW might increase the risk of having code that would be Windows > specific while using Cygwin might lead you to code that is more unix > generic. When I tried to port an app from Linux to Windows, I hit a big problem with g_io_channel handling on a serial port, and ended up having to write (or dig up from a previous Borland project) windows-specific code. I don't think cygwin would fix that, though. On the other hand, might cygwin produce code that needs lots of cygwin libraries, whereas MinGW produces an application that only needs the GTK windows port? _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsRob Pearce wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Damon Register wrote: > >> Though I am not certain, I wonder if >> using MinGW might increase the risk of having code that would be Windows >> specific while using Cygwin might lead you to code that is more unix >> generic. >> > > When I tried to port an app from Linux to Windows, I hit a big problem with > g_io_channel handling on a serial port, and ended up having to write (or dig > up from a previous Borland project) windows-specific code. I don't think > cygwin would fix that, though. > > On the other hand, might cygwin produce code that needs lots of cygwin > libraries, whereas MinGW produces an application that only needs the GTK > windows port? > > `-mno-cygwin' is used (with gcc) the binary built will need the cygwin dll (so it can't be run if cygwin is not installed). With the `-mno-cygwin' switch the cygwin dll is not required, but other things may be necessary. Though dated, the following link may be relevant: http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html > _______________________________________________ > gtkmm-list mailing list > gtkmm-list@... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list > > -- José Alburquerque "Love is patient; it is kind; love does not envy; it does not parade itself (it is not puffed up); it does not behave unseemly; it does not seek its own things..." -- The Apostle Paul (1 Cor. 13:4, 5) "He who is not loving has not known God, because God is love." -- The Apostle John (1 John 4:8) _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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Re: Building of win32 applicationsPetr Hracek wrote:
> Finally I've installed MinGW to D:\Projects\XWinLinux > and MSys was installed to D:\Projects\XWinLinux\msys\1.0. > CodeBlocks is also installed to C:\CodeBlocks > > If all was OK could you please help me if I have to set up some variables > in Windows? > How I can compile my programs? Could you please send me a steps? > I've already Makefile of my program. What about GTK and all of the other things that usually go with it? You said in your earlier post "I would like to develop some GUI interfaces" but what you have at this point is the basic items needed to compile a console application. There are a few different ways to do that. One person mentioned coding the gtkmm by hand. Glade is a really nice way to build your GUIs. I suggest using Glade to build the GUI and gtkmm to do the programming. I didn't find a lot of instructions for getting gtkmm working with MinGW so it took me a little while to get it all working. Although there are precompiled binaries for gtk and gtkmm, I found some problems with using the gtkmm binary. I don't know how the gtkmm binary was built so I can't be certain of this but I suspect that it was not built with MinGW (or at least not the current version) and trying to use C++ libraries from another compiler can be trouble. I got the gtkmm source and built it myself. This sample app demonstrates the problem I had with the precompiled gtkmm. It is suppose to throw an exception that is caught but instead my app just died. If you build this demo and it just terminates instead of printing the exception message, then you have the problem http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glibmm/trunk/examples/keyfile/main.cc?view=markup Here is what I did to get gtk, gtkmm and supporting items working with my MinGW/msys setup. Summary 1. get and install MinGW and msys 2. get and install all-in-one bundle 3. get and install latest ActiveState perl 4. add or edit windows environment variables PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PATH 5. add GTK and Perl to msys PATH 6. test GTK 7. add missing gtkrc file 8. get and build libidn-1.8 9. get and build libiconv-1.9.2 10. get and build gettext-0.17 11. get and build libxml2-2.6.32 12. get and install libglade-2.6.2-20080525 13. get and build hicolor-icon-theme 14. get and build glade3-3.4.5 15. get and install gtkmm or do following steps instead 16. get and build cairomm-1.6.0.tar.gz 17. get and build libsigc++-2.0.18.tar.gz 18. get and build glibmm-2.16.3.tar.gz 19. get and build gtkmm-2.12.7.tar.gz 20. get and build libglademm-2.6.6.tar.gz 21. get and build libxml++-2.23.2.tar.gz 1. from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml click on Sourceforge File Release and get a. Automated MinGW Installer b. from MSYS Base System, the Current Release: MSYS-1.0.10.exe installer c. from MSYS Supplementary Tools, the Current Release: msysDTK-1.0.1.exe installer install MinGW. in the choose components, select g++ compiler in addition to what is already selected. do not select mingw make. install msys (answer yes in post install) install msysDTK 2. get all-in-one bundle from http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html unzip and copy bundle to c:\GTK 3. Get the latest perl 5.10 at http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/ Install it. I put it in c:\Perl 4. PKG_CONFIG_PATH /c/GTK/lib/pkgconfig add c:\GTK\bin to front of PATH 5. edit C:\msys\1.0\etc\profile and put this at the front of the PATH .:/c/GTK/bin:/c/GTK/include:/c/GTK/include/gtk-2.0:/c/GTK/include/glib-2.0:/c/Perl/site/bin:/c/Perl/bin 6. test with pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 7. This step is not required but is useful if you want your app to have a Windows look. create file C:\GTK\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc add this one line gtk-theme-name = "MS-Windows" Stop here if you are only going to write plain GTK. 8. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libidn libidn-1.8 ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static make make install 9. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv libiconv-1.9.2.tar.gz (sources) ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static make make install 10. http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html gettext-0.17.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static make make install 11. ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/ libxml2-2.6.32.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc make make install 12. http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/56940/libglade.html libglade-2.6.2.tar.gz edit glade/glade.def to add (if it is missing) glade_xml_construct_from_buffer ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc make make install 13. http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/wiki/HicolorTheme hicolor-icon-theme-0.10.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install 14. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glade3/3.4/ glade3-3.4.5 LDFLAGS=-L/c/GTK/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/c/GTK/include ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc make make install 15. This step provides all the gtkmm components but I had compatibility problems. You may want to skip this step and do the remaining instead. get gtkmm http://www.gustin.be/win32/gtkmm-win32-2.12.7.zip I found this one in the gtkmm list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2008-April/msg00020.html unzip gtkmm-win32 and copy into c:\GTK Stop here, or if skipping this step, continue with the rest to build your own gtkmm. 16. http://cairographics.org/releases/ cairomm-1.6.0.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install 17. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.0/ libsigc++-2.0.18.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install 18. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glibmm/2.16/ glibmm-2.16.3.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK edit Makefile to remove examples. One of the examples does not compile make make install 19. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/2.12/ gtkmm-2.12.7.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install 20. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglademm/2.6/ libglademm-2.6.6.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install 21. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libxml++/2.23/ libxml++-2.23.2.tar.gz ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install Damon Register _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list |
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