[Geany-Devel] Windows installer snapshots with GTK 2.24

[Enrico Tröger]

On 02/07/15 01:17, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 2015-07-01 02:45 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> On 2015-07-01 12:33 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>> On 27/06/15 20:53, Thomas Martitz wrote:
>>>> Am 27.06.2015 um 01:09 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've built new Windows installers from current GIT master.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Downloads can be found here:
>>>>> http://download.geany.org/snapshots/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Please note that these are test builds from the current development
>>>>> version, don't expect release quality.
>>>>> You have been warned :).
>>>>>
>>>>> After you installed the snapshots, you can also use the nightly
>>>>> builds again on Windows (i.e. copy the archive contents over the
>>>>> installation).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any feedback is welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nice! I'll try to spin GTK3-based installers soon. Though it needs tiny
>>>> patches to Geany (PR will follow).
>>>
>>> Thomas, could you do me a favor and check against which libraries your
>>> geany.dll is linked?
>>> Basically performing a 'ldd' on Windows.
>>>
>>> Attached is a short command session to dump object information from the
>>> DLL and then grep for "DLL Name" which lists linked libraries. This is
>>> somewhat similar to 'ldd' on Linux.
>>> You probably need to adjust the paths to the 'objdump' tool and the
>>> geany.dll (objdump.exe should be part of the Mingw installation and
>>> reside next to gcc.exe).
>>>
>>>
>>> Background: Frank made me aware that on a clean Windows system, the
>>> provided installer won't start because it requires libwinpthread-1.dll
>>> which is not distributed by the installer but is part of the Mingw
>>> environment. I never noticed this because on my Windows system, the
>>> Mingw installation is in $PATH and so this library is always available.
>>>
>>> I'm curious whether this happens also with your Mingw setup. I guess it
>>> will as it seems this is a change in newer gcc versions on Windows. But
>>> I want to get sure instead of just guessing :).
>>>
>>> Right now, I'm playing with static linking options, already tried
>>> -static -lpthread but so far without success.
>>>
>>> If it is just a requirement, we can probably distribute this library as
>>> well but if we can avoid it, even better.
>>>
>>
>> For cross-compiling it's sometimes useful to add `-static-libstdc++` and
>> `-static-libgcc` compiler/linker options, if not already there. Maybe
>> they would compile that library into Geany.exe statically along with the
>> std stuff.

Those are already used
(https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/wscript#L271).

> Another alternative might be `-static -lwinpthread-1` with or without
> the `-1`.

Thanks. I already tried static -lpthread and now also your variants but
all without success :(.
The geany.dll on my system is always linked against libwinpthread-1.dll,
even after updating my Mingw environment.

I'll keep testing and trying...



Regards,
Enrico

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