[Gambas-devel] Gambas on Cygwin

[Brandon Bergren]

Quoting Jonathan Wong <jon.the.wong at ...176...>:

> I heard there were so problems compiling Gambas on Cygwin. I was
> wondering how I could help out and how to begin.
>

Hello, Jonathan.

Sorry to be so late replying. I was offline for a while.

I already got most of the core components running, with the exception 
of the QT
component. Currently, it's not the easiest to get running (for one, the make
system expects QT to work) but I have gotten simple command line programs to
work fine.

Other areas of concern are reentrant network functions and an undefined pow10
(off the top of my head) in the gb.vb module.

Using the latest RC will get you pretty close to a working gambas though.

I'm in the planning stages of writing a fox toolkit component to use as an
alternate GUI component on Windows.  I just need to find the 
time/energy to get
some actual code banged out.

KDE-CYGWIN QT _REALLY_ doesn't like linking against a shared library on 
win32. I
might have to become a libtool developer to figure that one out. ;)  
Seriously,
I don't think anyone has even attempted it before me.  Shared libraries
themselves on cygwin are in flux right now.  Watch the GNU libtool list.

Really, I don't know if Fox will even link properly against a shared 
library in
Cygwin.  I'm willing to try, though....

GTK is probabaly the best solution as far as Cygwin compatability goes (C
dynamic linkages WORK PROPERLY on Cygwin), but I don't know GTK, and nobody
else has written the component yet. :(

Email me if you need more details or run into problems.

--Brandon
bdragon [at] mailsnare.net