+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.
+
General
=======
-For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to
-native Windows, and pre-built binaries (DLLs), surf to
-http://www.gimp.org/win32/ . "Native" means that we use the Win32 API
-only, and no POSIX (Unix) emulation layer except that provided by the
-Microsoft runtime C library, and a pthreads emulation library.
+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/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
have been used successfully.
But note that to just *use* GLib on Windows, there is no need to build
-it, prebuilt DLLs are available from the webiste above.
-
-With gcc I mean gcc-2.95.2 as distributed by Mumit Khan, either as a
-mingw version (preferred), or running under cygwin. To successfully
-use gcc, follow the instructions below. We want to use gcc
--mno-cygwin, i.e. produce executables (.exe and .dll files) that do
-*not* require the cygwin runtime library. This is called "mingw". I
-also use 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 is identical to that used by
-MSVC.)
-
-If you would want to use the cygwin tools to generate executables that
-*do* use the cygwin runtime, the normal Unix configuration method
-should work as if on Unix. But it won't produce DLLs. At least I
-haven't succeeded in that. Also, I have no idea what changes are
-necessary to the code for it to run successfully on cygwin.
-
-With some work, it might be possible to use the ./configure mechanism
-also with a "mingw32" configuration.
-
-The following preprocessor macros are used for conditional compilation
-related to Win32:
-
-- G_OS_WIN32 is defined when compiling for Win32, *and* without
- any POSIX emulation, other that to the extent provided by the
- bundled Microsoft C library (msvcrt.dll) and the pthreads-win32
- library. For instance, pathnames are in the native Windows syntax.
+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 without bothering to
+look for prebuilt packages, especially if prebuilt packages tend to
+use installation paths that don't conform to local customs.
+
+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
+ any POSIX emulation, other than to the extent provided by the
+ bundled Microsoft C library (msvcrt.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. Building for Cygwin is not
- supported. Some people have presumably done it, but no changes have
- been submitted back.
+ Cygwin is supposed to behave like Unix. G_OS_UNIX *is* defined when
+ compiling for Cygwin.
+
+- G_PLATFORM_WIN32 is defined when either G_OS_WIN32 or G_WITH_CYGWIN
+ is defined.
-The Win32 port of GLib and related software uses only G_OS_WIN32. As
-G_OS_WIN32 is defined in glibconfig.h, it is available to all source
-files that use GLib (or GTk+, which uses GLib).
+These macros are defined in glibconfig.h, and are thus (indirectly)
+available in all source files that include <glib.h> or GTK+ headers.
Additionally, there are the compiler-specific macros:
-- __GNUC__ is defined when using GCC
+- __GNUC__ is defined when using gcc
- _MSC_VER is defined when using the Microsoft compiler
-G_OS_WIN32 implies using the Microsoft C runtime MSVCRT.DLL. GLib or
-software using it is not known to work with the older CRTDLL.DLL
-runtime.
-
-Building software that use GLib or GTk+
+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. 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+
=======================================
-Even building software that just *use* GLib or GTk+ also require to
+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.
-Pthreads library
-================
-
-Before building you must get the pthreads library for Win32 from
-http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/. The pthreads-win32
-snapshot from 1999-05-30 is the one that should be used. Edit the
-location of the pthreads library and include files in makefile.msc or
-makefile.mingw. The pthreads distribution includes the precompiled dll
-and import libraries both for MSVC and gcc. Later versions might also
-work.
+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.
-The pthreads for Win32 package that the thread support uses supposedly
-isn't quite ready yet, and thus threads stuff should not be relied
-upon for anything serious.
+Building GLib
+=============
-Libiconv
-========
+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.
+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.
-Where are the makefiles?
-========================
-
-If you are building from a CVS snapshot, you will not have any
-makefile.mingw or makefile.msc file. You should copy the corresponding
-makefile.mingw.in or makefile.msc.in file to that name, and edit the
-line that sets GLIB_VER to the correct version number.
+Autoconfiscated build (with gcc)
+================================
-This is done automatically when an official GLib source distribution
-package is built.
-
-Building GLib with gcc
-======================
-
-I use the latest gcc, gcc-2.95.2. Version 2.95 will most probably also
+Tor uses gcc 3.3.1. Somewhat earlier or later versions presumably also
work.
-You can either use gcc running on cygwin, or the "pure" mingw
-gcc. Using the latter is much easier.
-
-Just fetch the latest version of gcc for mingw and the msvcrt runtime,
-currently from
-ftp://ftp.nanotech.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/snapshots/gcc-2.95.2-1/
-.
-
-Download the three zip archives: the gcc-<version>-msvcrt,
-mingw-msvcrt-<timestamp> and binutils-<timestamp>-msvcrt, and unpack
-them in a suitable directory.
-
-Set up your PATH so that the gcc from the bin directory that got
-created above is the one that gets used. You can skip steps 1--5
-below. Even if you run the mingw gcc, you still want to have cygwin to
-run make in.
-
-If you want to run a cygwin-based gcc, it gets a bit more
-complicated. We still want gcc to produce code that does not use
-cygwin, but the msvcrt runtime. The way to do this can be quite
-complex, and the instructions are not included here. Contact me if you
-want some possibly outdated, misleading and incomplete advice.
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Tor invokes configure using:
+
+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
+
+(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.
+
+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
+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
+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
+code that does not use Cygwin, but the msvcrt runtime, in theory it
+should work to use the -no-cygwin flag, but Tor hasn't tested that
+lately.
+
+If you would want to use the Cygwin tools to generate a GLib that
+*does* use the Cygwin runtime, the normal Unix configuration method
+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, either.
+
+Cross-compiling
+===============
+
+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.
Building with MSVC
==================
-If using the Microsoft toolchain, build with `nmake -f
-makefile.msc`. Install with `nmake -f makefile.msc install`.
+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.
+
+Build with:
+
+nmake -f makefile.msc
+ or
+nmake -f makefile.msc DEBUG=1
+
+[
+ The former will create 'release' versions of the DLLs. If you
+ plan to distribute you DLLs please use this command. The latter
+ will create DLLs with debug information _and_ link them with
+ msvcrtd.dll instead of msvcrt.dll.
+ Beware: There are known problems with mixing DLLs in one
+ application, which are build against different runtimes.
+ Especially the index-to-file mapping used by 'unix-style' file
+ operation - _open() _pipe() etc. - breaks sometimes in strange
+ ways (for example the Gimp plug-in communication).
+]
+
+Required libraries (not build from cvs)
+------------------
+ libintl (gnu-intl), libiconv
+ libtiff, libpng, zlib, libjpeg
+
+are available pre-built from the website mentioned above.
+
+Versioning
+----------
+Instead of the Unix and auto* way of tracking versions and resolving
+dependencies (configure; make; make install) involving autoconf,
+automake, libtool and friends the MSVC build uses a different
+approach.
+
+The core of it's versioning is the file build/win32/module.defs.
+It contains entries of the form MODULE_VER, e.g.:
+
+ GLIB_VER = 2.0
+ LIBICONV_VER = 1.3
+
+and the placement of these modules defined as MODULE, e.g.:
+
+ GLIB = $(TOP)/glib
+ LIBICONV = $(TOP)/libiconv-$(LIBICONV_VER)
+
+whereas TOP is defined as the relative path from the respective
+module directory to your top build directory. Every makefile.msc
+needs to define TOP before including the common make file part
+make.msc, which than includes module.defs, like:
+
+TOP = ../..
+!INCLUDE $(TOP)/glib/build/win32/make.msc
+
+(Taken from gtk+/gdk/makefile.msc)
+
+With this provision it is possible to create almost placement
+independent makefiles without requiring to 'install' the libraries and
+headers into a common place (as it is done on Unix, and as Tor does
+when producing his zipfiles with prebuilt GLib, GTK+ etc).
+
+Special Files
+-------------
+ config.h.win32.in : @XXX_MAJOR_VERSION@ needs to be replaced by
+the current version/build number. The resulting file is to be saved
+as 'config.h.win32'. This should be automatically done if a package
+gets build on the Unix platform.
+
+ makefile.msc.in : @XXX_MAJOR_VERSION@ to be replaced. Save as
+makefile.msc.
+
+ <module>.def : every function which should be used from the outside of
+a dll needs to be marked for 'export'. It is common that one needs to change
+these files after some api changes occured. If there are variables to be
+exported another mechanism is needed, like :
+
+ #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
+ # ifdef GDK_COMPILATION
+ # define GDKVAR __declspec(dllexport)
+ # else
+ # define GDKVAR extern __declspec(dllimport)
+ # endif
+ #else
+ # define GDKVAR extern
+ #endif
+
+
+
+Directory Structure
+-------------------
+all modules should be build in a common directory tree otherwise you
+need to adapt the file 'module.defs'. They are listed here in increasing
+dependencies order.
+
+<common rootdir without spaces>
+ |
+ +- glib
+ | |
+ | +- build : [this module lives in the cvs root dir]
+ | | +- win32
+ | | .\module.defs : defines (relative) locations of the headers
+ | | and libs and version numbers to be include
+ | | in dll names
+ | | .\make.msc : include by almost every 'makefile.msc'
+ | |
+ | | .\README.WIN32 : more information how to build
+ | | .\glibconfig.h.win32.in : similar to config.h.win32.in
+ | | .\makefile.msc : master makefile, sub dir makefiles should work
+ | |
+ | +- glib
+ | +- gmodule
+ | +- gthread : does _not_ depend on pthread anymore
+ | +- gobject
+ |
+ +- pango
+ | +- pango : 'native' build does not require extra libs and
+ | | includes the minimal required text renderer
+ | | (there is also a currently slightly broken FreeType2
+ | | based implementation for win32)
+ | +- modules (not yet build)
+ |
+ +- atk
+ | +- atk
+ | .\makefile.msc : build here
+ |
+ +- gtk+
+ | | .\config.h.win32 : for all the below
+ | |
+ | +- gdk-pixbuf
+ | | .\gdk_pixbuf.rc.in : version resource for the DLLs. Needs
+ | | to be converted (filled with version info)
+ | | as described above.
+ | |
+ | +- gdk
+ | | | .\makefile.msc : some auto-generation is needed to build in the
+ | | | in the subdirectory
+ | | +- win32
+ | |
+ | +- gtk
+
+ |
+ +- gimp
+ | .\makefile.msc : master makefile to build The Gimp. The makefiles
+ | from the sub dirs should work stand alone, but than
+ | the user needs to know the build order
+
+ |
+ +- dia : additionally depends on libart_lgpl (in cvs)
+ | and libxml2 ( see http://www.xmlsoft.org/ )
+ +- lib
+ +- app
+ +- objects
+ +- plug-ins
+ +- python
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