Add headers. Add section about ActiveIMM.

2001-11-08  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@iki.fi>

	* README.win32: Add headers. Add section about ActiveIMM.

	* configure.in: Add --with-ie55 flag to specify the location of
	the "IE55 libs and headers" package downloadable from Microsoft,
	which contains, among other things, the Active IMM header dimm.h
	and UUID library uuid.lib. Use test -f instead of AC_CHECK_FILE.
	Require GLib 1.3.10.

	* config.h.win32.in: New version, produced by merging two
	configure-generated ones (for gcc and MSVC). Hopefully #defines
	the same flags that the previous, hand-written one, did.

	* gdk/Makefile.am
	* gdk/win32/Makefile.am: Handle the uuid library from the IE55 lib.

	* gdk/win32/gdkevents-win32.c: Conditionalize ActiveIMM
	stuff. Remove unused GdkIOClosure.

	* gdk/win32/surrogate-dimm.h: Remove, use real dimm.h instead (if
	available).

	* gdk/win32/libie55uuid.la: New file, handwritten libtool wrapper
	for uuid.lib. (Does it really have to be this hard to use an
	existing library with libtool? Probably I am missing something.)

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32
index 0c527f01a0..e4c091666d 100644
--- a/README.win32
+++ b/README.win32
@@ -10,12 +10,18 @@ until the CVS HEAD version is useable. (But note, the Win32 backend
 has never been claimed to be "production quality", although it works
 surprisingly well for the GIMP.)
 
+Building GTK+ on Win32
+======================
+
 There are two ways to build GTK+ for win32:
 
 1) Use the autoconf-generated configure script, and the resulting
 Makefiles (which use libtool and gcc to do the compilation). I use
 this myself, but it might be hell to setup correctly. 
 
+Personally I run configure with:
+CC='gcc -mpentium -fnative-struct' CPPFLAGS='-I/target/include' CFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS='-L/target/lib' ./configure --disable-static --prefix=/target --with-gdktarget=win32 --with-wintab=/src/wtkit126 --with-ie55=/src/workshop/ie55_lib --host=i386-pc-mingw32 --enable-maintainer-mode
+
 2) Use the Microsoft compiler, cl and Make, nmake. Say nmake -f
 makefile.msc in gdk and gtk.
 
@@ -34,6 +40,9 @@ taking care of those makefiles. At times, we disagree a bit, and the
 msc makefiles might not produce compatible or identically named DLLs
 and import libraries as the autoconfiscated makefiles and libtool do.
 
+Using GTK+ on Win32
+===================
+
 To use GTK+ on Win32, you also need either one of the above mentioned
 compilers. Other compilers might work, but don't count on it. The same
 instructions on how to set up a correct version of gcc should also be
@@ -41,12 +50,26 @@ followed if you want to build applications that use GTk+ with gcc. For
 prebuilt developer packages (DLLs, import libraries, headers), see the
 above website.
 
+Multi-threaded use of GTK+ on Win32
+===================================
+
+Multi-threaded GTK+ programs might work in special simple cases, but
+not in general. Sorry. If you have all GTK+ and GDK calls in the same
+thread, it might work. Otherwise, probably not at all. Possible ways
+to fix this are being investigated.
+
+Wintab
+======
+
 The tablet support uses the Wintab API. The Wintab development kit can
 be downloaded from http://www.pointing.com. Pass the --with-wintab
 flag to configure if you use that. If you use nmake and you don't care
 for Wintab, undefine HAVE_WINTAB in config.h.win32 and remove
 references to the wntab32x library from the makefile before building.
 
+Libintl
+=======
+
 GTK wants to be built with the GNU "intl" library for
 internationalisation (i18n). Get the version ported to Win32 (not a
 very big deal) from the web site mentioned above. The "intl" library
@@ -59,4 +82,16 @@ Note that while the GNU gettext package is under the GPL, the "intl"
 part of it is under the LGPL (like GTK or GLib), as of
 gettext-0.10.40.
 
+ActiveIMM
+=========
+
+If you want to build a GTK+ that supports ActiveIMM (the Input Method
+Manager for non-EastAsia locales that can be used on Win9x/NT4), you
+need the dimm.h header file. That is somewhat difficult to find, but
+http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/wizard/ seems to
+be a good place to look nowadays. If you use autoconfiscated build,
+pass the --with-ie55 flag to configure specifyin the location of the
+ie55_lib directory created by downloading the IE5.5 headers and libs
+from the above URL.
+
 --Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>