[Geany-Devel] Msys2 to compile on win32

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 14.06.2015 um 18:26 schrieb Enrico Tröger:

> This is why :).
> I thought a couple of times of making geany.nsi.in and
> geany_private.rc.in and fill in the version number automatically. But I
> never was annoyed enough to fiddle with the 4-part version numbers used
> there. Maybe you are :).

The last digit is always isn't it?

>
>>>> - the installer geany lacks some icons
>>> Which? Why?
>> Most icons are missing actually, such as open, save on the toolbar.
> This is probably because Geany is compiled by autotools with the Unix
> like path layout but the installer creates our custom Windows layout and
> so Geany simply looks at the wrong location.

Actually the issue goes away if I remove the installer-included GTK 
runtime, so that the one in PATH is used. I guess I didn't add enough 
files (icons?) to the installer


>
> With Waf it is actually geany-0.dll.
> But except for the installer, it should not make any difference, right?
> I don't mind which one we will use. In the end, I hope we will only have
> one build system, i.e. no more Waf, and so the name doesn't matter, I guess.
> Oh, while writing, I think of the linker. Does the msys2 linker handle
> libgeany.dll properly when using '-lgeany' as specific in the pkgconfig
> file? It works at least with the Mingw linker and Waf.
>
>


libgeany-0.dll works just fine.

Best regards