[Geany-Devel] Windows installer snapshots with GTK 2.24

[Matthew Brush]

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.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush