[Geany-Devel] Geany 1.23 Waf install under win32

[Dimitar Zhekov]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:59:14 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 06/16/13 15:11, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
> > 
> > - no header fiels are installed, or maybe they are copied somewhere
> > outside the $prefix. Copying the headers manually is OK.
> 
> This is on purpose.
> For development, I use a custom script to copy the headers. However, we
> could add a custom action to Waf to copy/install the headers somewhere.
> The question is where is 'somewhere' on Windows?

Everything else is under $prefix, so why not in $prefix/include?
Moreover, that's what the .pc file says.

> IMO it doesn't make any sense to install the headers by default into the
> resulting directory, as this is usually used to create a release
> installer and this doesn't need headers.

Any installer allows to specify what should be included and what not...

> Would be a custom build action and maybe a destination path argument
> helpful?

...but yes, such an action (install-devel?) will spare a few minutes.

> Btw, the geany.pc is also not installed, so probably this should be done
> in the same custom action.

Wasn't it installed in $prefix/lib/pkgconfig or something? If not,
install[-devel] should copy it.

> > - geany.pc contains paths with single backslashes, and plugins build
> > fails with "c:path1path2...: no such file or directory". Replacing
> > with forward slashes works. All other .pc files I've checked under
> > win32 use forward slashes.
> 
> Are these paths used at all on Windows? At least for me the generated
> .pc file worked fine so far.

waf under win~1 requires pkg-config and really uses geany.pc, no doubt
about that.

If the headers are installed in/under some standard include directory,
or a directory mentioned in another .pc file, that may work... or the
backslash handling, or whether geany.pc file contains single or double
backslashes, may depend on the python version... I don't know, really.
In all cases, '/' is the safe bet, and all glib/atk/gdk/gtk...pc files
use forward slashes under win~1.

-- 
E-gards: Jimmy