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authorCedric Gustin <cedric.gustin@gmail.com>2006-04-07 09:09:57 +0000
committerCedric Gustin <gustin@src.gnome.org>2006-04-07 09:09:57 +0000
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Updated for Mingw-4.1.
2006-04-07 Cedric Gustin <cedric.gustin@gmail.com> * README.win32: Updated for Mingw-4.1.
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ cygwin and msvcrt runtime environments.
The mingw distribution which has been tested with this release is the
following :
-* MinGW-2.0 as the base distribution.
+* MinGW-4.1 as the base distribution.
The bare mingw distribution does not provide the necessary tools (sh, perl, m4
, autoconf, automake, ..) to run the provided configure script "as is". One
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ that were mentioned above) with mingw by making sure that the mingw
tools (gcc, ld, dlltool, ..) are called first.
First, make sure that you have working distribution of the native port
-of both libsigc++-1.2.x and glib-2.0 on win32 (see
+of both libsigc++-2.0.x and glib-2.0 on win32 (see
http://www.gimp.org/win32). If you can't compile a simple glib example
using gcc and `pkg-config --cflags --libs`, you should not even think
about trying to compile glibmm, let alone using precompiled libglibmm
@@ -44,42 +44,6 @@ make
make check
make install
-Because Dll support with libtool on the mingw32 platform is fairly recent, it
-requires developement version of autoconf/automake and libtool, as provided by
-the autotools-devel package in the cygwin distribution. Currently, this means
-
-libtool : 1.5
-automake : 1.7.9
-autoconf : 2.59
-
-IMPORTANT WARNING : the libtool scripts contained in the source distribution
-of the library might not be recent enough to support dll creation. It will
-create a static library instead. The main reason for this situation
-comes from the fact that the gnome distribution uses the last stable
-releases of the autotools, as opposed to their development (cvs)
-versions. Therefore, it is recommended to always checked the version
-of libtool that is being used when compiling libsigc++ on win32 by calling
-
-libtool --version
-
-once it has been created by the configure script.
-
-If libtool is too old, it will be necessary to overwrite it using
-
-libtoolize --force
-
-from the cygwin autotools-devel package (usually located on
-/usr/autotools/devel), followed by
-
-aclocal
-automake
-autoconf
-
-before running the configure script again.
-
-In the future, a specially tuned source distribution along with a binary
-package might be provided for mingw.
-
2. MS Visual Studio 2005
Open the glibmm.sln solution file in the MSVC_Net2003 directory. In