Re: [Denemo-devel] Building 1.0 for windows

[Jeremiah Benham]

On 01/29/13 02:47, Richard Shann wrote:
> I wonder how we should proceed with release 1.0.
> The builds that I have done from gub for windows all issue warnings
> about fonts and on at least one xp machine I have tested they crash.
> One approach would be to review how things are being built for windows -
> I came across this site which details building stuff for mingw
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> http://ingar.satgnu.net/devenv/mingw32/gtk.html

This looks like a pretty good site. They are using more modern software. 
I can try to put this stuff into gub to see if it helps. I believe the 
0.9.6 denemo mingw release used an entirely different set of software. 
Perhaps we have a bad combination of versions or something. I could 
create a branch in gub called release-0.9.6 or something that we could 
use for testing. This will tell us if we have something in our code that 
is causing the crash or its our dependency versions. I have been trying 
to experiment with upgrading things lately.

> In particular it lists
> cd fontconfig-2.9.0 && ./configure --prefix=$LOCALDESTDIR
> --enable-libxml2 --disable-docs
> for building fontconfig, which does not appear remarkable; I wonder if
> we have a correct fonts.conf and so on in /etc...

Its probably worth investigating.

> Another would be to put the release out and our best binary build for
> windows (& others) and await feedback, issuing fresh binaries if people
> find better ways of building the sources.

Yes. That would work. We are going to stagnating if we keep playing 
around with gub if you ask me. I consider it a small miracle that we 
actually have gub even producing a target.

> Jeremiah - I have lost track of the status of the build of a binary for
> GNU/Linux distributions - do you have something that is a good candidate
> for release?

evince does not work on gtk3 based distos. Evince does not load its pdf 
backend. It is looking in /usr/lib/evince/2 or something. I created a 
symlink and the warning went away but pdf still did not load. I also 
think that the people who will be downloading binaries in this fashion 
are probably people who don't feel like going through ./configure;make 
etc... or it is people who don't know how. I am guessing that a large 
portion of these people are running modern system based on gtk3.

Jeremiah

> Before release I will make a final pass through all the stuff like the
> manual and the language stuff.
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