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2 Windows port of the freedesktop.org D-Bus
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7 - cmake version >= 2.4.4 see http://www.cmake.org
8 - installed libxml2 or libexpat from http://82.149.170.66/kde-windows/win32libs
14 1. install cmake and libxml or libexpat
18 5. cmake <dbus-src-root>/cmake or cmake -DDBUS_USE_EXPAT=on <dbus-src-root>/cmake in case libexpat should de used
23 1. Install your prefered compiler
24 - Mingw from www.mingw.org
25 - Visual C++ 2005 Express/Studio
27 2. Install libxml2 or libexpat packages from
28 http://82.149.170.66/kde-windows/win32libs
29 into a subdir win32libs in your program installation eg
30 - german => "c:\Programme\win32libs"
31 - english => "c:\Program Files\win32libs"
33 3. download and install the most recent CMake version from http://www.cmake.org/files/
35 4. apply dbus-win.patch: 'patch -p0 -i dbus-win.patch'
37 5. open command shell and run in the created build folder which resides side by side
40 cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" <options> ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
42 cmake ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
49 (when build with the Visual C++ IDE the *.exe files are
50 in the bin/Debug and bin/Release folder)
53 bin\dbus-test.exe .\test\data
56 bin\bus-test.exe .\test\data
58 - check available names
61 - check if dbus-daemon is accessable
62 bin\dbus-send.exe --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.4 array [ string "org.freedesktop.DBus"string ":1.4"]
65 * set DBUS_VERBOSE=0 (=1 for getting debug infos)
66 * start bin\dbus-daemon --session
67 * bin\dbus-send.exe --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --print-reply --type=method_call / org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.DBus.TestSuiteEchoService uint32:455 method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.8 uint32 2
73 key description default value
74 --- ----------- -------------
75 DBUS_USE_EXPAT "Use expat (== ON) or libxml2 (==OFF) OFF
76 DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS "Disable assertion checking" OFF
77 DBUS_BUILD_TESTS "enable unit test code" ON
78 DBUS_ENABLE_ANSI "enable -ansi -pedantic gcc flags" OFF
79 DBUS_ENABLE_GCOV "compile with coverage profiling
80 instrumentation (gcc only)" OFF
81 DBUS_ENABLE_VERBOSE_MODE "support verbose debug mode" ON
82 DBUS_DISABLE_CHECKS "Disable public API sanity checking" OFF
83 DBUS_INSTALL_SYSTEM_LIBS "install required system libraries
84 (mingw: libxml2, libiconv, mingw10)" OFF
85 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "build type (== debug) or (== release) release
92 Running the tests in Visual Studio:
94 To successfully run the tests by the IDE you must add
95 the FULL patch to test\data in your build directory
96 (e.g. c:\dbus\build\test\data)
100 -> Command line arguments
107 - How much work remains till DBUS win32 can be merged with the main project?
109 There are some patches outstanding and the most effort is required in
110 discussions with the main dbus team how to implement some parts. One of
111 the main dbus team estimated the open work to one fulltime week.
112 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-November/006264.html
114 I assume they will answer ALL your questions, and they are very
115 interested in fully supporting win32.
117 - How far is WinDBus from being usable for production ?
118 dbus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate
119 production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some
120 test not running and we need help to get them running.
122 In the pratice I and some other people are using dbus for at least more
123 than a half year in conjunction with kde on windows without any problems.
126 - On UNIX D-Bus uses UNIX sockets to communicate (correct me if I'm wrong).
127 What is used on Windows ?
129 tcp sockets, there are some efforts to get named pipe running, but some
130 design problems of the win32 api, we are not able to solve without
131 bigger changes to the dbus code base let us stop this effort.
134 - Do you have any clue if dbus-win32 can run in a Windows CE environment?
136 I was told that windows ce does not have posix function
137 open/close/select/... and dbus code uses such function in some area.
140 - Do you know if the C++ binding made by OpenWengo will be easily portable to Windows?
142 We have already ported the OpenWengo dbus-c++ binding, see in WinDBus svn (http://sf.net/projects/windbus)
143 The related test applicationa are running well.
151 - all changes of dbus-win.patch should become part of the official D-Bus code
153 - all code currently disabled by DBUS_WIN_FIXME should work
156 * bus/bus-service-win.c
158 * dbus/dbus-spawn-win.c
159 * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-win.c
160 * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
164 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-July/005076.html