[Geany-Devel] Msys2 to compile on win32

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 14.06.2015 um 16:35 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
> On 14/06/15 15:50, Thomas Martitz wrote:
>> Am 14.06.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Enrico Tröger:
>>> On 14/06/15 14:21, Thomas Martitz wrote:
>>>> Why do you say self-compiled GTK? It is readily packaged for msys, I
>>>> think we should be able to use that.
>>> Oops, scratch the self-compiled. But we still need to create a
>>> distributable GTK runtime environment. This is probably doable from the
>>> installed GTK package, I guess.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Enrico
>> I'm experimenting at this moment. The gtk/glib/etc package files can be
>> found under /var/cache/pacman/pkg/$pkg-$ver.tar.xz. They can be
>> extracted with tar to a working directory. But what to do afterwards?
>> The wiki says to move the files under $geanydir/gtk, but how is the
>> installer file created? The nsis gui is giving me an error:
> Now that you have the release.py (see below), you can easily see it is just:
>
> makensis /V2 /DINCLUDE_GTK geany.nsi

Thanks

>
>> Error in macro MUI_PAGEDECLARATION_LICENSE on macroline 17
>> Error in macro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE on macroline 6
>> Error in script "C:\msys64\home\kugel\geany.git\geany.nsi" on line 87
>>
>> (geany.nsi:87 reads "!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE
>> "${RESOURCEDIR}\Copying.txt")
> the Copying.txt is expected to be copied when installing Geany.
> 'waf install' does this.
> We cannot use a plain 'make install' on Windows as it is done on Linux,
> the Geany wscript has some logic, yes and magic, to do things different
> on Windows (like renaming AUTHORS, COPYING, README and so on to *.txt).

Using msys2 we can use the autotools build system on windows. Therefore 
make install works just fine, installs to the dir given by ./configure 
--prefix=XXX.

I guess since I use autotools Copying.txt isn't created (?). Also, do I 
need to install to a special directory?

Best regards.