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@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ This VS9 solution and the projects it includes are intented to be used
in a gobject-introspection source tree unpacked from a tarball. In a git checkout you
first need to use some Unix-like environment, which will do the work for you.
-The required dependencies are Python 2.7 (2.7) or 3.3 (3.x) or later, GLib and LibFFI.
-It is recommended that GLib is built with Visual C++ 2008 to avoid problems cause by
-usage of different CRTs.
+The required dependencies are Python 2.7 (2.7) or 3.3 (3.x) or later, GLib and LibFFI.
+It is recommended that GLib is built with Visual C++ 2008 to avoid problems cause by
+usage of different CRTs.
Please refer to the README.txt file in $(GLib_src_root)\build\win32\vs9 on how to build
GLib using Visual C++ 2008
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ comes with the LibFFI source package for more details on how to build LibFFI
on Visual C++-please note that the mozilla-build package from Mozilla is needed
in order to build LibFFI on Windows.
-For Python, retrieving the official Windows binaries for 2.7 (2.x) or 3.3 (3.x) or later
-from http://www.python.org will do the job-be sure that the Python version that
-you downloaded matches the configuration of your build (win32 or x64/amd64). Ensure that
-the correct path for your Python interpretor is set in gi-extra-paths.vsprops prior to
-opening the project files, or close the project files and delete all the *.user, *.ncb and
-*.suo files and reopening the project files.
+For Python, retrieving the official Windows binaries for 2.7 (2.x) or 3.3 (3.x) or later
+from http://www.python.org will do the job-be sure that the Python version that
+you downloaded matches the configuration of your build (win32 or x64/amd64). Ensure that
+the correct path for your Python interpretor is set in gi-extra-paths.vsprops prior to
+opening the project files, or close the project files and delete all the *.user, *.ncb and
+*.suo files and reopening the project files.
For building the Regress test project, cairo (and possibly cairo-gobject support)
is needed.
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php [32-bit]
http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php [64-bit]
*** Note! ***
-Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python and PKG_CONFIG_PATH,
-the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
+Please note that due to numerous possible configurations on Python and PKG_CONFIG_PATH,
+the build of G-I is now a 2-step process: one with the Visual Studio Projects that
will build the libraries, tools, Python Module and test DLLs (except for the everything
test), and the other one with NMake Makefiles for building the introspection files.
Please note that if one needs to change the installation location
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ variables, but the following environmental variables are needed (either by using
or by nmake -f gi-introspection-msvc.mak xxx=yyy) for building the introspection files (which
should be done after successfully building the Project Files):
-PYTHON: Full path to your Python 2.7.x/3.3.x+ interpretor (python.exe) if it is
- not in your PATH. Please note that only 2.7.x and 3.3.x and later works.
- You need to use an x64/amd64 version of Python for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
- version of Python for Win32/x86 builds
+PYTHON: Full path to your Python 2.7.x/3.3.x+ interpretor (python.exe) if it is
+ not in your PATH. Please note that only 2.7.x and 3.3.x and later works.
+ You need to use an x64/amd64 version of Python for x64 builds, and a Win32/x86
+ version of Python for Win32/x86 builds
PKG_CONFIG_PATH: Location of the .pc (pkg-config) files, especially for the GLib .pc files.
-Please see $(srcroot)\build\win32\gi-introspection-msvc.mak for more details. Doing
+Please see $(srcroot)\build\win32\gi-introspection-msvc.mak for more details. Doing
"nmake -f gi-introspection-msvc.mak (options omitted)" will build the various introspection files,
and "nmake -f gi-introspection-msvc.mak (options omitted) install-introspection" will copy the introspection
files to <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\share\gir-1.0 (.gir files) and <root>\vs9\<PlatformName>\lib\girepository-1.0