[Gambas-devel] Any started windows port ?

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 15:02, Hervé Masson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Benoît tried to make it work using cygwin:
> >
> > "Gambas interpreter and compiler now compiles on CygWin but not
> > components.
> >
> > The libtool 1.5 package is required, and I don't know how to get it ! But
> > programs without GUI work."
>
> Could someone give hints to achive compiling gambas on cygwin ?
>
> I simply tried to run "./configure" on cygwin, and it failed when
> searching for libX11. I then loaded the cygwin/x modules, which
> amongst other things install a library named "libX11.dll.a", but
> his does not suit gambas needs. Is there something special to do
> about this ?
>

Did you install X11 development packages ?

> > In other words, if you can help providing libtool 1.5 for Cygwin,
> > or allowing gambas to load components using any other method under
> > cygwin, do not wait, start now! :-))
>
> Isn't the available cygwin package "libtool-1.5b" good for gambas
> compilation ?
>
>  > Rob wrote:
>  > Hmmm, I don't know about that... building the gambas compiler and
>  > interpreter under cygwin and using qt-cygwin is a far cry from
>  > porting the compiler+interpreter to native windows and using
>  > this native qt port!  I don't think you could use this qt port
>  > from a cygwin program, but maybe I misunderstand its project
>  > page...
>
> Do you have another suggestions/directoins to achieve the port of
> the GUI part ?
>

The qt component uses some X11 specific code to workaround Qt bugs & 
limitations, and depends on a window manager that implements the 
freedesktop.org standards. Otherwise, you should not have problem :-)

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini
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