[Geany-Devel] Geany 1.23 Waf install under win32

[Dimitar Zhekov]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:16:41 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On 16/06/13 20:37, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I committed a few changes to install header files and geany.pc also on
> Windows into $prefix when using Waf.
> 
> Additionally, I added a new section to the installer to optionally
> install these files also, disabled by default.
> 
> The generated geany.pc file doesn't container any backslashes on my
> system, only forward slashes.

Thanks. I will test that soon.

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E-gards: Jimmy