For prebuilt binaries (DLLs and EXEs) and developer packages (headers,
import libraries) of GLib, GTK+, GIMP etc for Windows, surf to
-http://www.gimp.org/win32/ . They are for "native" Windows meaning
-they use the Win32 API and Microsoft C runtime library only, no POSIX
-(Unix) emulation layer (like Cygwin).
+http://www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html . They are for "native"
+Windows meaning they use the Win32 API and Microsoft C runtime library
+only, no POSIX (Unix) emulation layer (like Cygwin).
To build GLib on Win32, you can use either gcc or the Microsoft
compiler and tools. Both the compiler from MSVC 5.0 and from MSVC 6.0
But note that to just *use* GLib on Windows, there is no need to build
it yourself. Prepackaged runtime and developer packages are available
from the webiste above. On Unix, it is quite normal that system admins
-build and install libraries like GLib themselves. But on Windows
-setting up a correct build environment can be quite a task, especially
-if you are used to on Unix just type ./configure; make, and expect
-things to work as smoothly on Windows.
+build and install libraries like GLib themselves without bothering to
+look for prebuilt packages, especially if prebuilt packages tend to
+use installation paths that don't conform to local customs.
-The following preprocessor macros can be used for conditional
+On Windows setting up a correct build environment can be quite a task,
+especially if you are used to just type "./configure; make" on Unix,
+and expect things to work as smoothly on Windows.
+
+The following preprocessor macros are to be used for conditional
compilation related to Win32 in GLib-using code:
- G_OS_WIN32 is defined when compiling for native Win32, without
G_OS_WIN32 implies using the Microsoft C runtime MSVCRT.DLL. GLib is
not known to work with the older CRTDLL.DLL runtime, or the static
Microsoft C runtime libraries LIBC.LIB and LIBCMT.LIB. It apparently
-does work with the debugging version of MSVCRT.DLL, MSVCRTD.DLL.
+does work with the debugging version of MSVCRT.DLL,
+MSVCRTD.DLL. Presumably, if compiled with MSVC.NET, it also works with
+MSVCR70.DLL. Please note that it's dubious if you would be allowed by
+the license to distrubute a GLib linked to MSVCR70.DLL, as it is not
+part of the operating system, but of the MSVC product. MSVCRT.DLL is
+part of Windows.
Building software that use GLib or GTK+
=======================================
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.
-Tor uses gcc with the -fnative-struct flag, which means that in order to
-use the prebuilt DLLs (especially of GTK+), 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-compiled code. This definitely is
-something one wants.)
+Tor uses gcc with the -mms-bitfields flag (used to be called
+-fnative-struct in gcc 2.x), 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-compiled code. This
+definitely is something one wants.
Building GLib
=============
Again, first decide whether you really want to do this.
-Before building GLib you must also have the libiconv library, either
-from the same website mentioned above, or from it's homepage at
-http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html. Libiconv has
-makefiles for building with MS Visual C only, but as it is one source
-file only, building it "by hand" with gcc isn't hard.
-
-You must also have the "intl" library from GNU tettext 0.10.40 (or
-later). Get a prebuilt version from the website mentioned above.
-
-Edit the correct paths to those libraries in build/win32/module.defs
-as appropriate.
-
-Where are the makefiles?
-========================
-
-If you are building from a CVS snapshot, you will not have any
-makefile.mingw or makefile.msc files. You should copy the
-corresponding makefile.mingw.in or makefile.msc.in file to that name,
-and replace any @...@ strings with the correct value.
-
-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.mingw and makefile.msc files ready
-to use (after some editing).
+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.
-Building GLib with gcc
-======================
+Autoconfiscated build (with gcc)
+================================
-Tor uses gcc-2.95.3. Version 2.95.2 will most probably also work.
+Tor uses gcc 3.2. Version 2.95.3 also works.
You can either use gcc running on Cygwin, or the "pure" mingw
gcc. Using the latter might work better, or at least did at some
-point.
+point. You should be running Cygwin, or maybe cross-compiling from
+real Unix, for the configure script to work, obviously. It is also
+possible to use MSYS.
-Fetch the latest version of gcc for mingw and the msvcrt runtime, from
-www.mingw.org.
+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.
-Set up your PATH so that the gcc from the bin directory that got
-created above is the one that gets used. Even if you run the mingw
-gcc, you still want to have Cygwin to run make in.
+Tor invokes configure using:
-Then run make -f makefile.mingw. Install the resulting DLLs somewhere
-in your PATH. You can either keep the headers and import libraries
-where they are, or install them somewhere else. There are no rules in
-the makefile.mingws for installing, it is up to you where to put them.
+CC='gcc -mcpu=pentium3' CPPFLAGS='-I/target/include'
+ CFLAGS=-O3 LDFLAGS='-L/target/lib' ./configure --with-libiconv
+ --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/target --host=i386-pc-mingw32
-Autoconfiscated build
-=====================
+(on a single line). The /target/include mentioned contains the header
+files for libintl and libiconv, and the (import) libraries are in
+/target/lib. This happens to be in the same tree where he configures
+GLib to be installed, but doesn't have to be.
-It is also possible to use the auto*, ./configure and libtool
-mechanism when building with gcc. You should be running Cygwin, or
-maybe cross-compiling from real Unix, for the configure script to
-work, obviously. (It might also be possible to use "MSYS", but I
-haven't checked.) You most probably should have very new auto* and
-libtool. Tor invokes configure using:
-
-CC='gcc -mpentium -fnative-struct'
- CPPFLAGS='-I/src/libiconv-1.7/include -I/target/include'
- LDFLAGS='-L/src/libiconv-1.7/lib -L/target/lib' ./configure
- --with-libiconv --disable-static --prefix=/target
- --host=i386-pc-mingw32 --enable-maintainer-mode
-
-(on a single line)
-
-But please note that the ./configure mechanism should not blindly be
-used to build a GLib to be distributed to other developers because it
+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 (and 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
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
-MSVC users, as both compilers generate code that uses the same C
-runtime library. Thus one either has to manually edit glibconfig.h
-afterwards, or use the supplied config.h.win32 and
-glibconfig.h.win32. These have been produced by running configure
-twice, once using gcc and once using MSVC, and merging the resulting
-files with diff -D.
-
-There might be other hickups when using auto* and configure to build
-with gcc. Lately Tor has used auto*/configure/libtool exclusively when
-building GLib, GTK+, GIMP etc on Win32, and it seems to work well
-(with some patches applied to the current CVS libtool...).
-
-The hand-written makefile.{mingw,msc} files, and the stuff in the
-"build" subdirectory, produce DLLs and import libraries that match
-what Makefile.am and libtool produces. For GLib, the DLL is called
-libglib-1.3-15.dll (at GLib 1.3.15), and the import libraries
-libglib-1.3.dll.a and glib-1.3.lib. Note that the "1.3" is part of the
-"basename" of the library, it is not something that libtool have
-tucked on. The -15 suffix is the value of "LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE". The
-15 is *not* simply the micro version number of GLib, although, for
-GLib 1.3.15, it happens to be the same. For the gory details, see
+MSVC 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 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 tucked on. 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 2.2.0, it happens to be the
+same. 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 and libtool documentation.
If you want to run the Cygwin-hosted gcc, and still want to produce
should work as if on Unix. Note that successfully producing shared
libraries (DLLs) for Cygwin most probably requires you to have a very
new libtool. (And a new libtool probably requires rather new autoconf
-and automake.) Tor hasn't tested this in a while.
+and automake.) Tor hasn't tested this in a while, either.
Building with MSVC
==================
-All the MSVC makefiles are for the command line build with nmake.
-If you want to use the VC-UI you can simply create wrapper .dsp
-makefiles (read the VC docs how to do so).
+If you are building from a CVS snapshot, you will not have any
+makefile.msc files. You should copy the corresponding makefile.msc.in
+file to that name, and replace any @...@ strings with the correct
+value.
+
+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
+editing).
+
+The hand-written makefile.msc files, and the stuff in the "build"
+subdirectory, produce DLLs and import libraries that match what the
+so-called autoconfiscated build produces.
+
+All the MSVC makefiles are for the command line build with nmake. If
+you want to use the VC-UI you can simply create wrapper .dsp makefiles
+(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.
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