[Geany-Devel] Windows installer snapshots with GTK 2.24

[Matthew Brush]

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.
>

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

Cheers,
Matthew Brush