Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
Hans Breuer <hans@breuer.org>
-The general parts, and the section about gcc and autoconfiscated build
-are by Tor Lillqvist. The sections about MSVC build is by Hans Breuer.
+Note that this document is not really maintained in a serious
+fashion. Lots of information here might be misleading or outdated. You
+have been warned.
+
+The general parts, and the section about gcc and autoconfiscated
+build, and about a Visual Studio build are by Tor Lillqvist. The
+sections about MSVC build with NMAKE is by Hans Breuer.
General
=======
only. No POSIX (Unix) emulation layer like Cygwin in involved.
To build GLib on Win32, you can use either gcc ("mingw") or the
-Microsoft compiler and tools. Microsoft's MSVC6 and later have been
-used successfully. People have also successfully cross-compiled GLib
-for Win32 from Linux using the cross-mingw packages.
+Microsoft compiler and tools. For the latter, MSVC6 and later have
+been used successfully. Also the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler has
+reportedly been used.
+
+You can also cross-compile GLib for Windows from Linux using the
+cross-compiling mingw packages for your distro.
Note that to just *use* GLib on Windows, there is no need to build it
yourself.
- G_OS_WIN32 is defined when compiling for native Win32, without
any POSIX emulation, other than to the extent provided by the
- bundled Microsoft C library (msvcrt.dll).
+ bundled Microsoft C library (msvcr*.dll).
- 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. G_OS_UNIX *is* defined when
- compiling for Cygwin.
+ Cygwin is supposed to behave like Unix. G_OS_UNIX *is* defined by a GLib
+ for Cygwin.
- G_PLATFORM_WIN32 is defined when either G_OS_WIN32 or G_WITH_CYGWIN
is defined.
-These macros are defined in glibconfig.h, and are thus (indirectly)
-available in all source files that include <glib.h> or GTK+ headers.
+These macros are defined in glibconfig.h, and are thus available in
+all source files that include <glib.h>.
Additionally, there are the compiler-specific macros:
- __GNUC__ is defined when using gcc
Building software that use GLib or GTK+
=======================================
-Even building software that just *uses* GLib or GTK+ also require to
-have the right compiler set up the right way, so if you intend to use
-gcc, follow the relevant instructions below in that case, too.
+Building software that just *uses* GLib or GTK+ also require to have
+the right compiler set up the right way. If you intend to use gcc,
+follow the relevant instructions below in that case, too.
Tor uses gcc with the -mms-bitfields flag which means that in order to
use the prebuilt DLLs (especially of GTK+), if you compile your code
with gcc, you *must* also use that flag. This flag means that the
struct layout rules are identical to those used by MSVC. This is
essential if the same DLLs are to be usable both from gcc- and
-MSVC(6)-compiled code. Such compatibility is desirable.
+MSVC-compiled code. Such compatibility is desirable.
When using the prebuilt GLib DLLs that use msvcrt.dll from code that
uses other C runtimes like for example msvcr70.dll, one should note
-that one cannot use such GLib API that takes or returns file
+that one cannot use such GLib API that take or returns file
descriptors. On Windows, a file descriptor (the small integer as
returned by open() and handled by related functions, and included in
the FILE struct) is an index into a table local to the C runtime
Again, first decide whether you really want to do this.
-Before building GLib you must also have the libiconv library and GNU
-gettext. Get prebuilt binaries of libiconv (1.9.1 or newer), and
-gettext-runtime (0.13.1 or newer) from www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html.
+Before building GLib you must also have a GNU gettext-runtime
+developer package. Get prebuilt binaries of gettext-runtime from
+http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html .
Autoconfiscated build (with gcc)
================================
-Tor uses gcc 3.4.5 from www.mingw.org, and the rest of the mingw
-utilities, including MSYS. Somewhat earlier or later versions of gcc
-presumably also work fine. Using Cygwin's gcc with the -mno-cygwin
-switch is not recommended. In theory it should work to use the
--no-cygwin flag, but Tor hasn't tested that lately, and it can easily
-lead to confusion where one mixes up headers for Cygwin from
-/usr/include with the headers one really should use. Ditto for
-libraries.
+Tor uses gcc 3.4.5 and the rest of the mingw utilities, including MSYS
+from www.mingw.org. Somewhat earlier or later versions of gcc
+presumably also work fine.
+
+Using Cygwin's gcc with the -mno-cygwin switch is not recommended. In
+theory it should work, but Tor hasn't tested that lately. It can
+easily lead to confusing situations where one mixes headers for Cygwin
+from /usr/include with the headers for native software one really
+should use. Ditto for libraries.
-If you want to use mingw's gcc, install gcc, Win32 headers and
-binutils from www.mingw.org. Set up your PATH so that the mingw gcc is
-the one that gets used, and not Cygwin's gcc. Even if you run the
-mingw gcc, you still want to have Cygwin to run make in.
+If you want to use mingw's gcc, install gcc, win32api, binutils and
+MSYS from www.mingw.org.
Tor invokes configure using:
LDFLAGS='-L/opt/gnu/lib -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' CFLAGS=-O2 \
./configure --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=$TARGET
-(on a single line). The /opt/gnu mentioned contains the header files
-for GNU and (import) libraries for GNU libintl. The build scripts used
-to produce the prebuilt binaries are included in the "dev" packages.
+The /opt/gnu mentioned contains the header files for GNU and (import)
+libraries for GNU libintl. The build scripts used to produce the
+prebuilt binaries are included in the "dev" packages.
Please note that the ./configure mechanism should not blindly be used
to build a GLib to be distributed to other developers because it
-produces a compiler-dependent glibconfig.h. (Also config.h, but that
-shouldn't matter, as it isn't seen by GLib-using applications). For
-instance, the typedef for gint64 is long long with gcc, but __int64
-with MSVC.
-
-Except for this and a few other minor issues, there really shouldn't
-be any reason to distribute separate GLib headers and DLLs for gcc and
-MSVC6 users, as the compilers generate code that uses the same C
-runtime library. The DLL generated by either compiler is binary
-compatible with the other one. Thus one either has to manually edit
-glibconfig.h afterwards, or use the supplied glibconfig.h.win32 which
-has been produced by running configure twice, once using gcc and once
-using MSVC, and merging the resulting files with diff -D.
+produces a compiler-dependent glibconfig.h. For instance, the typedef
+for gint64 is long long with gcc, but __int64 with MSVC.
+
+Except for this and a few other minor issues, there shouldn't be any
+reason to distribute separate GLib headers and DLLs for gcc and MSVC6
+users, as the compilers generate code that uses the same C runtime
+library.
+
+The DLL generated by either compiler is binary compatible with the
+other one. Thus one either has to manually edit glibconfig.h
+afterwards, or use the supplied glibconfig.h.win32 which has been
+produced by running configure twice, once using gcc and once using
+MSVC, and merging the resulting files with diff -D.
For MSVC7 and later (Visual C++ .NET 2003, Visual C++ 2005, Visual C++
2008 etc) it is preferred to use specific builds of GLib DLLs that use
the same C runtime as the code that uses GLib. Such DLLs should be
named differently than the ones that use msvcrt.dll.
-For GLib, the DLL is called libglib-2.0-0.dll, and the import
-libraries libglib-2.0.dll.a and glib-2.0.lib. Note that the "2.0" is
-part of the "basename" of the library, it is not something that
-libtool has added. The -0 suffix is the value of "LT_CURRENT -
-LT_AGE". The 0 is *not* simply the micro version number of GLib,
-although, for GLib 2.x.0, it happens to be the same. The LT_CURRENT -
+For GLib, the DLL that uses msvcrt.dll is called libglib-2.0-0.dll,
+and the import libraries libglib-2.0.dll.a and glib-2.0.lib. Note that
+the "2.0" is part of the "basename" of the library, it is not
+something that libtool has added. The -0 suffix is added by libtool
+and is the value of "LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE". The 0 should *not* be
+thought to be part of the version number of GLib. The LT_CURRENT -
LT_AGE value will on purpose be kept as zero as long as binary
-compatibility is maintained. For the gory details, see configure.in
+compatibility is maintained. For the gory details, see configure.ac
and libtool documentation.
-Cross-compiling
-===============
+Building with Visual Studio
+===========================
-It is possible to build GLib using a cross compiler. See
-docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html (part of the GLib
-reference manual) for more information.
+In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 a solution
+file that can be used to build the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary
+programs. Read the README.txt file in that folder for more
+information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, and
+zlib.
-Building with MSVC
-==================
+Building with MSVC and NMAKE
+============================
-If you are building from a CVS snapshot, you will not have any
+If you are building from a GIT snapshot, you will not have all
makefile.msc files. You should copy the corresponding makefile.msc.in
file to that name, and replace any @...@ strings with the correct
-value.
+value (or use the python script de-in.py from http://hans.breuer.org/gtk/de-in.py).
This is done automatically when an official GLib source distribution
package is built, so if you get GLib from a source distribution
-package, there should be makefile.msc files ready to use (after some
+package, there should be makefile.msc files ready to use (possibly after some
editing).
The hand-written makefile.msc files, and the stuff in the "build"
(read the VC docs how to do so).
Some modules may require Perl to auto-generate files. The goal (at
-least Hans's) is to not require any more tools.
+least Hans's) is to not require any more tools. Of course you need
+the Microsoft Platform SDK in a recent enough - but not too recent - version.
+The last PSDK for Visual Studio 6 is:
+ http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/psdk-full.htm
+At least install the Core SDK, maybe also the "Tablet PC SDK".
+
Build with:
|
+- glib
| |
- | +- build : [this module lives in the cvs root dir]
+ | +- build : [this module lives in the SVN root dir]
| | +- win32
| | .\module.defs : defines (relative) locations of the headers
| | and libs and version numbers to be include
| the user needs to know the build order
|
- +- dia : additionally depends on libart_lgpl (in cvs)
+ +- dia : additionally depends on libart_lgpl (in SVN)
| and libxml2 ( see http://www.xmlsoft.org/ )
+- lib
+- app
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