1 This README.windbus file below originates from the "windbus" fork. It
2 does not reflect reality here. Changes from both windbus and the
3 separate "dbus4win" fork have been merged into this code repository,
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7 Windows port of the freedesktop.org D-Bus
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12 - cmake version >= 2.4.4 see http://www.cmake.org
13 - installed libxml2 or libexpat from http://82.149.170.66/kde-windows/win32libs
19 1. install cmake and libxml or libexpat
23 5. cmake <dbus-src-root>/cmake or cmake -DDBUS_USE_EXPAT=on <dbus-src-root>/cmake in case libexpat should de used
28 1. Install your prefered compiler
29 - Mingw from www.mingw.org
30 - Visual C++ 2005 Express/Studio
32 2. Install libxml2 or libexpat packages from
33 http://82.149.170.66/kde-windows/win32libs
34 into a subdir win32libs in your program installation eg
35 - german => "c:\Programme\win32libs"
36 - english => "c:\Program Files\win32libs"
38 3. download and install the most recent CMake version from http://www.cmake.org/files/
40 4. apply dbus-win.patch: 'patch -p0 -i dbus-win.patch'
42 5. open command shell and run in the created build folder which resides side by side
45 cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" <options> ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
47 cmake ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
54 (when build with the Visual C++ IDE the *.exe files are
55 in the bin/Debug and bin/Release folder)
58 bin\dbus-test.exe .\test\data
61 bin\bus-test.exe .\test\data
63 - check available names
66 - check if dbus-daemon is accessable
67 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"]
70 * set DBUS_VERBOSE=0 (=1 for getting debug infos)
71 * start bin\dbus-daemon --session
72 * 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
78 key description default value
79 --- ----------- -------------
80 DBUS_USE_EXPAT "Use expat (== ON) or libxml2 (==OFF) OFF
81 DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS "Disable assertion checking" OFF
82 DBUS_BUILD_TESTS "enable unit test code" ON
83 DBUS_ENABLE_ANSI "enable -ansi -pedantic gcc flags" OFF
84 DBUS_ENABLE_GCOV "compile with coverage profiling
85 instrumentation (gcc only)" OFF
86 DBUS_ENABLE_VERBOSE_MODE "support verbose debug mode" ON
87 DBUS_DISABLE_CHECKS "Disable public API sanity checking" OFF
88 DBUS_INSTALL_SYSTEM_LIBS "install required system libraries
89 (mingw: libxml2, libiconv, mingw10)" OFF
90 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "build type (== debug) or (== release) release
97 Running the tests in Visual Studio:
99 To successfully run the tests by the IDE you must add
100 the FULL patch to test\data in your build directory
101 (e.g. c:\dbus\build\test\data)
105 -> Command line arguments
112 - How much work remains till DBUS win32 can be merged with the main project?
114 There are some patches outstanding and the most effort is required in
115 discussions with the main dbus team how to implement some parts. One of
116 the main dbus team estimated the open work to one fulltime week.
117 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-November/006264.html
119 I assume they will answer ALL your questions, and they are very
120 interested in fully supporting win32.
122 - How far is WinDBus from being usable for production ?
123 dbus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate
124 production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some
125 test not running and we need help to get them running.
127 In the pratice I and some other people are using dbus for at least more
128 than a half year in conjunction with kde on windows without any problems.
131 - On UNIX D-Bus uses UNIX sockets to communicate (correct me if I'm wrong).
132 What is used on Windows ?
134 tcp sockets, there are some efforts to get named pipe running, but some
135 design problems of the win32 api, we are not able to solve without
136 bigger changes to the dbus code base let us stop this effort.
139 - Do you have any clue if dbus-win32 can run in a Windows CE environment?
141 I was told that windows ce does not have posix function
142 open/close/select/... and dbus code uses such function in some area.
145 - Do you know if the C++ binding made by OpenWengo will be easily portable to Windows?
147 We have already ported the OpenWengo dbus-c++ binding, see in WinDBus svn (http://sf.net/projects/windbus)
148 The related test applicationa are running well.
156 - all changes of dbus-win.patch should become part of the official D-Bus code
158 - all code currently disabled by DBUS_WIN_FIXME should work
161 * bus/bus-service-win.c
163 * dbus/dbus-spawn-win.c
164 * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-win.c
165 * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
169 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-July/005076.html