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[Demexp-dev] Newer clients under win32 platform
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GISQUET Christophe |
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[Demexp-dev] Newer clients under win32 platform |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:01:27 +0200 |
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Hello,
I've just tried to quickly reinstall a build environment suitable for demexp
and managed to produce some installers, as usual available at
http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/demexp/
While 0.6.3 went as expected like a breeze, 0.7 versions were a total PITA, in
particular for gettext support (yay for ocaml!): the number of dependencies is
ludicrous. Which by the way does not work, but more on this later.
So we have:
0.6.3 which is alike the previous versions, except for the installer which has
the demexp:// URI and desktop shortcut suggested on some page of the website.
0.7-dev which corresponds to some demexp--0.7-dev I saw on David's demexp
page, and for which I forced my way through gettext by sed'ing away s_/f_/open
Gettext. It works, albeit the i18n support is of course not getting in the way.
0.7-22778c97efe4 (an automatically generated tarball) is the real killer here:
- building gettext requires an ocaml 3.09 version; I'll start a specific
thread on that matter
- the DemexpGettext module does let dir = None (equivalent to
$prefix/share/locale ?) which I suspect won't work under windows
- I couldn't understand how to simply build the .mo files from the makefile,
and had to do a cd po; make -f ../Makefile fr.mo (yay for the new perl
dependency btw)
- the binary stops (not a crash, gdb shows an exit code of 2 without crash)
after the anonymous message box; it's probably not related to gettext, so I'll
start yet another thread for it
So, yes, it's probably a problem of the "if it hurts, don't do it (alone)"
kind, but it has been quite frustrating.
I haven't included the GTK runtime as one can get it from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk+-2.8.18-setup-1.zip?download
or
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/wfdownloads/visit.php?lid=102
The later one is preferred as I have better reasons to believe it has the
glade2 runtime contrary to the former link.
I'm not attaching any change I had to do, because I tried to spend as little
time as possible on this, and doing manual diffs for all changed files against
an unpolluted tree is not something I consider quick enough for now.
I've registered to the -dev list, so you don't need to Cc: me. I however plan
to withdraw my registration as soon the win32 build matters are settled.
Best regards,
--
Christophe GISQUET
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