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| author | Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> | 2001-03-09 21:55:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Tor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org> | 2001-03-09 21:55:06 +0000 |
| commit | c54732d0ea603027bfdf5325d365b7e07829c332 (patch) | |
| tree | 3272570465715b4078bcc44f1f06dac1afd7dc33 /README.win32 | |
| parent | 2f928d64571b2586ec5d581a20ee0ffd39aaf028 (diff) | |
Update with some information about using configure and libtool.
2001-03-09 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* README.win32: Update with some information about using configure
and libtool.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.win32')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.win32 | 29 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 06105e3fa..480db916b 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -24,14 +24,19 @@ the prebuilt DLLs (especially of GTK+), you *must* also use that flag. (This flag means that the struct layout is identical to that used by MSVC.) -If you would want to use the cygwin tools to generate executables that -*do* use the cygwin runtime, the normal Unix configuration method -should work as if on Unix. But it won't produce DLLs. At least I -haven't succeeded in that. Also, I have no idea what changes are -necessary to the code for it to run successfully on cygwin. - -With some work, it might be possible to use the ./configure mechanism -also with a "mingw32" configuration. +If you would want to use the cygwin tools to generate a GLib that +*does* use the cygwin runtime, the normal Unix configuration method +should work as if on Unix. Note that successfully producing shared +libraries (DLLs) most probably requires you to have a very new libtool +(from March 2001), and to replace the libtool.m4 included in +acinclude.m4 with the new one, and to replace ltmain.sh. + +It is also possible to use the ./configure mechanism when building for +a mingw configuration. You should be running cygwin for the configure +script to work, obviously. The same libtool issue has to be taken into +account as when building for Cygwin: You most probably should have a +libtool from March 2001 or so, and replace libtool.m4 (in +acinclude.m4) and ltmain.sh. The following preprocessor macros are used for conditional compilation related to Win32: @@ -43,9 +48,11 @@ related to Win32: - G_WITH_CYGWIN is defined if compiling for the Cygwin environment. Note that G_OS_WIN32 is *not* defined in that case, as - Cygwin is supposed to behave like Unix. Building for Cygwin is not - supported. Some people have presumably done it, but no changes have - been submitted back. + Cygwin is supposed to behave like Unix. G_OS_UNIX *is* defined when + compiling for Cygwin. + +- G_PLATFORM_WIN32 is defined when either G_OS_WIN32 or G_WITH_CYGWIN + is defined. The Win32 port of GLib and related software uses only G_OS_WIN32. As G_OS_WIN32 is defined in glibconfig.h, it is available to all source |