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[platform/upstream/glib.git] / README.win32

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@@ -67,6 +67,20 @@ you would be allowed by the license to distrubute a GLib linked to
 msvcr70.dll or msvcr80.dll, as those are not part of the operating\r
 system, but of the MSVC product. msvcrt.dll is part of Windows.\r
 \r
+For people using Visual Studio 2005 or later:\r
+\r
+If you are building GLib-based libraries or applications, or GLib itself\r
+and you see a C4819 error (or warning, before C4819 is treated as an error\r
+in msvc_recommended_pragmas.h), please be advised that this error/warning should\r
+not be disregarded, as this likely means portions of the build is not being\r
+done correctly, as this is an issue of Visual Studio running on CJK (East Asian)\r
+locales.  This is an issue that also affects builds of other projects, such as\r
+QT, Firefox, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, Pango and GTK+, along with many other projects.\r
+\r
+To overcome this problem, please set your system's locale setting for non-Unicode to\r
+English (United States), reboot, and restart the build, and the code should build\r
+normally.  See also this GNOME Wiki page [1] that gives a bit further info on this.\r
+\r
 Building software that use GLib or GTK+\r
 =======================================\r
 \r
@@ -159,11 +173,22 @@ and libtool documentation.
 Building with Visual Studio\r
 ===========================\r
 \r
-In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 a solution\r
-file that can be used to build the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary\r
-programs. Read the README.txt file in that folder for more\r
-information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, and\r
-zlib.\r
+A more detailed outline of building GLib with its dependencies can\r
+now be found on the GNOME wiki:\r
+\r
+https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Win32/MSVCCompilationOfGTKStack\r
+\r
+Please do not build GLib in paths that contain spaces in them, as\r
+this may cause problems during compilation and during usage of the\r
+library.\r
+\r
+In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 (VS 2008) and\r
+build\win32\vs10 (VS 2010) a solution file that can be used to build\r
+the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary programs under VS 2008 and VS 2010\r
+(Express Edition will suffice with the needed dependencies) respectively.\r
+Read the README.txt file in those folders for more\r
+information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, zlib, and \r
+libFFI.\r
 \r
 If you are building from a GIT checkout, you will first need to use some\r
 Unix-like environment or run build/win32/setup.py, \r
@@ -356,3 +381,4 @@ dependencies order.
       +- plug-ins\r
           +- python\r
 \r
+[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Win32/MSVCCompilationOfGTKStack under "Preparations"\r