moin all,
On 2009-05-21 18:10:35, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at appears to have written:
On May 21, 2009, at 11:53 AM, august wrote:
So of your list there, we still have to handle glib and pkg-config. As for binaries, there currently isn't really a way to manage them. Right now, the setup uses binaries from the MinGW and MSYS installers, then everything else is checked into SVN 'sources' and built from source. In order to make this setup reproduceable, it needs to be simple.
I think August got pkg-config going, was that a binary?
yeah, the only way to go is with binaries due to a circular dependency with glib and pkg-config.
after a brief look at glib's configure.ac, it looks to me like the glib -> pkg-config "dependency" isn't really one, and could be fixed by some judicious use of 'dnl' (m4 comment-ization) in glib/configure.ac.
Which binary did you use? Is there an 'official' MinGW one?
I second the question: august?
for my own part, I didn't find a pkg-config binary from either mingw or gnuwin, so i used the binaries referenced on gtk.org:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config-0.23-2...
which worked to build glib, but after 'svn up'-ing pure-data/sources, a whole bunch of libs have been complaining, and I'm getting pkg-config crashes during build-libs-on-mingw.sh (i can attach a log, but it's huge and i haven't really identified the problem yet). so i think a better way to go would be:
- comment out the AC_PROG(pkg-config) in glib/configure.ac (or
configure.in, I forget which convention glib uses)
- tweak the libpcre clauses so that they don't call pkg-config (afaict,
the GRegex/PCRE stuff is the only place glib actually calls pkg-config),
re-generate the glib autotools stuff (e.g. autoreconf)
use the --with-local-pcre or whatever option to glib ./configure and
it ought to build
... no time for this atm, especially since these other libs are giving me grief and annoying segfault popups ... grr
Strangely, http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ (the official pkg-config home) reports:
"A copy of glib 1.2.8 is shipped together with pkg-config and this is sufficient for pkg-config to compile and work properly"
huh...
marmosets, Bryan