[Geany-Devel] Windows installer snapshots with GTK 2.24

[Matthew Brush]

On 2015-07-02 01:36 PM, Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On 02/07/15 01:17, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Those are already used
> (https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/master/wscript#L271).
>
>> Another alternative might be `-static -lwinpthread-1` with or without
>> the `-1`.
>
> Thanks. I already tried static -lpthread and now also your variants but
> all without success :(.
> The geany.dll on my system is always linked against libwinpthread-1.dll,
> even after updating my Mingw environment.
>
> I'll keep testing and trying...
>

I remember having this problem before, though I forget how I solved it :(

This looks kind of promising:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/28001271

Cheers,
Matthew Brush