[Geany-devel] Geany-Plugins: Windows test build for 1.22 available

[Enrico Tröger]

On 01/07/12 22:45, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 12-07-01 05:41 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>> On 01/07/12 12:16, Matthew Brush wrote:
>>> On 12-07-01 01:44 AM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I just made a test build of Geany Plugins 1.22 for Windows.
>>>>
>>>> A little surprisingly for me, it all worked fine on the first
>>>> attempt :).
>>>>
>>>> I only had problems loading the Geany-Lua plugin with some strange
>>>> error
>>>> message which I didn't investigate yet:
>>>> http://pastebin.geany.org/EUmwJ/
>>>> The error message occurs on plugin loading. I'm not sure whether it is
>>>> caused by my system or something else.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone wants to test it, any feedback is appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> The installer...
>>>> http://www.uvena.de/tmp/geany-plugins-1.22_setup_testbuild.exe
>>>>
>>>> ... requires an existing Geany 1.22 installation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Nice work!
>>>
>>> I'm not able to test on Windows for a few days, but  until then, can you
>>> say which plugins are included?
>>
>> Not really. When I boot Windows the next time, I'll have a look.
>>
> 
> OK, I was mostly wondering whether either of my two plugins would be
> available.
> 
>>
>>> I'm curious about stuff like Debugger and MultiTerm that depend on VTE,
>>> or Devhelp and Webhelper that depend on (GTK)WebKit, were you able to
>>> get that going on Windows?
>>
>> VTE on Windows? Not that I know of.
> 
> Yeah I don't think, except for maybe on Cygwin or something.

And IMO cygwin is not an option, for various reasons like additional
dependencies and performance overhead.


>> And WebkitGtk exists for Windows but I didn't include it. Last time,
>> read at time of the last plugins' release, I tried to find a build but
>> without success. Windows builds exist but I just didn't find them.
>> And I'm not sure if we want to include it as it certainly would bump the
>> installer size significantly (currently it has about 2MB, with Webkit it
>> would be > 10MB I guess) .
>>
> 
> Not sure, I know the source is available and I think there's "nightly"
> builds. I'm just remembering last release when many people were asking
> where is the Webhelper plugin on Windows. I don't think these people

There are also "normal" builds, for example Midori used a build from the
SuSE build service, IIRC.


> (mostly web devs probably) were really inclined to (re)build with
> GtkWebKit support.
> 
> It's your call though, you're the one suffering through using Windows to
> get this built :)

If someone have more information about available builds (and a related
-dev package) I might have a look though I doubt we'll manage that for
the 1.22 release which is, AFAIK, due on upcoming Sunday.

But we certainly should keep GtkWebkit support in mind for the next
release after 1.22.


Regards,
Enrico

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