Re: [Pan-devel] Re: Building PAN on Windows - Success

[Charles Kerr]

> FINALLY!  Success!

Yay! :)

> My last issue with an error regarding getaddrinfo, this was resolved by
> rolling back to an older version of mingw.

Which version of mingw didn't work, and which did?

> 1) I modified the Inno Setup file to copy pcreposix.dll and libxml2.dll
> into the PAN directory, should that go into sys like pcre.dll does or is
> it ok to put it in the PAN directory?  The first time I built it and ran
> PAN it complained that it could not find that file so I modified the
> .iss to include it in the install package and put it into the app
> directory.  If this is wrong let me know.

Sounds OK to me.

> 2) I used alt.binaries.dvd as a test group and PAN stopped responding at
> ~96% with ~1.6 gigs of memory in use.  Other groups worked fine, I guess
> the Windows version still has some memory issues...
>
> 3) It still requires the GTK Runtime enviroment available at
> http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.14.2/WINDOWS/gtk_for_windows/GTK-Runtime-Environment-2.2.4.1.exe
> <http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.14.2/WINDOWS/gtk_for_windows/GTK-Runtime-Environment-2.2.4.1.exe>

If an end-user were to run the GIMP Windows GTK+ installer instead
of the one on Pan's home page, would your build work correctly?

> Charles, would you like me to email you this package to examine and
> test?  Should I gzip up my build directory as well and send it to you or
> would you prefer if I made a number of patch files?

Patch files would be great.

cheers,
Charles