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diff --git a/src/3rd_party/dbus-1.7.8/README.win b/src/3rd_party/dbus-1.7.8/README.win deleted file mode 100644 index 4e4f757400..0000000000 --- a/src/3rd_party/dbus-1.7.8/README.win +++ /dev/null @@ -1,111 +0,0 @@ ------------------------------------------ -Windows port of the freedesktop.org D-Bus ------------------------------------------ - -Features and completeness -------------------------- -The windows port of dbus provides the dbus-1 library and mostly -applications which are already available on unix. These applications -are: dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, dbus-monitor and dbus-send. -DBus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate -production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some -test not running yet and there is help needed to get them running. - -Supported compilers -------------------- -On windows Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express and professional variants) -and mingw-w64|32 are known to work. - -Building --------- -DBus can be built on windows using automake or cmake. See the -file README for more information. -Special cmake build instructions can be found in cmake/readme-cmake.txt - - -windbus and dbus4win Ports --------------------------- -The Windows ports from the windbus and dbus4win projects has been merged -into the freedesktop git master branch, as applicable. The spec has been -updated with windows specific stuff. - - -Tests ------ - - dbus library check - bin\dbus-test.exe <build-root>\test\data - - - bus daemon check - bin\bus-test.exe <build-root>\test\data - - - check available names - bin\test_names.exe - - - check if dbus-daemon is accessable - bin\dbus-send.exe --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.4 array [ string "org.freedesktop.DBus"string ":1.4"] - - - start session dbus-daemon - either by running - bin\dbus-launch - or - start bin\dbus-daemon --session - - Before running these commands you may execute - set DBUS_VERBOSE=1 - for getting debug infos - - - - call function registerd in dbus - bin\dbus-send.exe --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --print-reply --type=method_call / org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.DBus.TestSuiteEchoService uint32:455 method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.8 uint32 2 - - note: When building with the Visual C++ IDE the *.exe files are in - the bin/Debug and bin/Release folder, not in the bin folder. - - -FAQ ---- - -- How far is WinDBus from being usable for production ? - - dbus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate - production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some - test not running and we need help to get them running. - In the pratice I and some other people are using dbus for at least more - than four years in conjunction with kde on windows without any problems. - -- On UNIX D-Bus uses UNIX sockets to communicate (correct me if I'm wrong). - What is used on Windows ? - - tcp sockets, there are some efforts to get named pipe running, but some - design problems of the win32 api, we are not able to solve without - bigger changes to the dbus code base let us stop this effort. - -- Do you have any clue if dbus-win32 can run in a Windows CE environment? - - dbus has been ported to wince, see README.wince for more information - -- Do you know if the C++ binding made by OpenWengo will be easily portable to Windows? - - The OpenWengo dbus-c++ binding has been ported to windows see in WinDBus svn - (http://sf.net/projects/windbus) - The related test applications are running well. - - -TODO ----- - -October 2010: - -- the code wrapped with DBUS_WIN_FIXME should be inspected if it required for windows - -- create a dbus setup installer - -- implement system bus and system bus service starter - see http://windbus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/windbus/trunk/bus/bus-service-win.c - for a starting point - -- implement a real login session bus - The scope parameter of the autolaunch meta protocol could be extended to support user - specific session busses (like already done with the amarok bundled dbus which use a - shared memory area named "DBusDaemonAddressInfo:<username>". - Also the dbus installer should start a session bus on user login. |