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2 Windows port of the freedesktop.org D-Bus
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5 Features and completeness
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7 The windows port of dbus provides the dbus-1 library and mostly
8 applications which are already available on unix. These applications
9 are: dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor and dbus-send.
10 DBus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate
11 production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some
12 test not running yet and there is help needed to get them running.
16 On windows Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express and professional variants)
17 and mingw-w64|32 are known to work.
21 DBus can be built on windows using automake or cmake. See the
22 file README for more information.
23 Special cmake build instructions can be found in cmake/readme-cmake.txt
26 windbus and dbus4win Ports
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28 The Windows ports from the windbus and dbus4win projects has been merged
29 into the freedesktop git master branch, as applicable. The spec has been
30 updated with windows specific stuff.
36 bin\dbus-test.exe <build-root>\test\data
39 bin\bus-test.exe <build-root>\test\data
41 - check available names
44 - check if dbus-daemon is accessable
45 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"]
47 - start session dbus-daemon
51 start bin\dbus-daemon --session
53 Before running these commands you may execute
55 for getting debug infos
58 - call function registerd in dbus
59 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
61 note: When building with the Visual C++ IDE the *.exe files are in
62 the bin/Debug and bin/Release folder, not in the bin folder.
68 - How far is WinDBus from being usable for production ?
70 dbus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate
71 production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some
72 test not running and we need help to get them running.
73 In the pratice I and some other people are using dbus for at least more
74 than four years in conjunction with kde on windows without any problems.
76 - On UNIX D-Bus uses UNIX sockets to communicate (correct me if I'm wrong).
77 What is used on Windows ?
79 tcp sockets, there are some efforts to get named pipe running, but some
80 design problems of the win32 api, we are not able to solve without
81 bigger changes to the dbus code base let us stop this effort.
83 - Do you have any clue if dbus-win32 can run in a Windows CE environment?
85 dbus has been ported to wince, see README.wince for more information
87 - Do you know if the C++ binding made by OpenWengo will be easily portable to Windows?
89 The OpenWengo dbus-c++ binding has been ported to windows see in WinDBus svn
90 (http://sf.net/projects/windbus)
91 The related test applicationa are running well.
99 - the code wrapped with DBUS_WIN_FIXME should be inspected if it required for windows
101 - create a dbus setup installer
103 - implement system bus and system bus service starter
104 see http://windbus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/windbus/trunk/bus/bus-service-win.c
107 - implement a real login session bus
108 The scope parameter of the autolaunch meta protocol could be extended to support user
109 specific session busses (like already done with the amarok bundled dbus which use a
110 shared memory area named "DBusDaemonAddressInfo:<username>".
111 Also the dbus installer should start a session bus on user login.