Re: Windows Build and changes

Hi Ryan,

I just compiled wv HEAD on win32 using Mingw. I can't give a
blow-by-blow recount since I've had many of the pre-requisites
installed since forever, but here's my best effort:

I have Gnumeric for win32 installed. This ships with Ivan Wong's
gladewin32 packages. So, I have the GTK+ runtime and development
packages from http://gladewin32.sf.net/ installed. Everything is
installed into /c/Gnumeric/ (as far as msys is concerned, anyway).

I then needed to install libgsf. I was feeling brave, so I didn't use
TML's pre-compiled packages
(http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html). I got 1.14.x
from ftp.gnome.org. I installed it into Gnumeric's prefix (in this
case, /c/Gnumeric/). I suppose that TML's package would work fine, so
long as I manually edited the .pc file's ${prefix}.

Then I built wv. No problems whatsoever. I've run wvHtml on some of
the examples, and it "just works".

-Dom

On 9/18/06, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone - just your friendly Win32 maintainer here. I'm a bit
> overwhelmed at the moment, so I haven't gotten a chance to get HEAD
> re-building since the most recent build breakage. If folks would
> refrain from re-breaking platforms until I get a chance to straighten
> this out (hopefully very soon), that would be much appreciated. If you
> do break the build, please send me (even very brief) information on how
> I can fix it, so that I can use my precious free time efficiently to get
> AbiWord 2.5.x working on Windows again.
>
> Coincidentally, if someone manages to compile WV 1.2.x on MinGW and
> documents what they did, I would like them a lot, and probably consider
> them a pretty hoopy frood.
>
> Thanks, all! Keep on hacking, ants!
>
> Ryan
>
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> Ryan Pavlik
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