[Gambas-devel] Gambas and windows

[Brandon Bergren]

Quoting Laurent Carlier <lordheavy at ...141...>:

> Does anybody try to build the gambas core natively in windows, without the
> cygwin stuff ?
>
> As gtk exist natively ....
>

Getting it compiling in cygwin is just the start.  It's the kind of thing that
needs to be done in small steps.

Once I get all the pieces working properly in cygwin, I'll start porting parts
to mingw, which is a native compiler. (or msvc, but I don't want to have to
maintain a nmake tree. Yuk.)

You're welcome to try.  Some hints though --

*gb.net will NOT work without some tweaking. Winsock and BSD Sockets are just
incompatible enough to make you want to pull your hair out.
*You'll need a working libltdl. Which means writing a config.h by hand and
compiling by hand, as far as I can tell.
*I don't think most of the source code will like Windows' style of 
storing files
(\ is an escape character, damnit! ;)
*gb.qt supposedly has X11 specific code in it.
*Have a VERY good knowlege of how DLLs work, and how .so's work, and 
why they're
not the same thing.
*It would probabaly be hazardous to your health ;P

I'm not even going to THINK about a native port until the Cygwin port is ready
and stable.  My head hurts enough as it is. :(

> Regards,
>
> --
>
> Laurent Carlier

Thanks for your interest,
==Brandon B.