[Geany-Devel] Building geany using msys2 on Windows 10

[Lex Trotman]

Not sure who posted the wiki or how relevant it is (its a wiki after
all :), for example Geany now only supports GTK3, not GTK2.

The official Windows build processes are currently under upgrade as a
result, see https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/2590 and
https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/pull/1107.  Not sure the status
and if they are usable yet, but you might find the updated packages
used there.

IIUC after this is complete it might be possible to make a docker
container available to build Geany for windows with all the necessary
dependencies, no guarantees though.

Cheers
Lex


On Thu, 9 Sept 2021 at 14:05, Doug Henderson <djndnbvg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The slow loading of projects in geany 1.37.1 and the missing plugins
> installer for 1.37.1 has prevented me from upgrading, and a bug that
> may be related to file dialogs, has prompted me to try building geany
> from source.
>
>  I have been following the instructions on the wiki page "Build Geany
> on Windows (using MSYS2)" at https://wiki.geany.org/howtos/win32/msys2
> to set up and build on a Windows 10 Pro laptop with Msys2 and Mingw64
> installed. I have used msys2/mingw64 for several years and cygwin for
> many years, as well as several *nix systems in the past.
>
> In the "GTK+3 compilation" section, it appears that the required msys2
> package list has evolved since the wiki page was last updated about 6
> years ago. When I try to run "autoconfig.sh" to build ./configure, the
> following lines in "configure.ac":
>
> # GTK/GLib/GIO checks
> gtk_modules="gtk+-3.0 >= 3.0 glib-2.0 >= 2.32"
> gtk_modules_private="gio-2.0 >= 2.32 gmodule-no-export-2.0"
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GTK], [$gtk_modules $gtk_modules_private])
>
> appear to cause a failure about missing packages. I could not find a
> "gmodule-no-export" package.
>
> Can someone suggest how to correct this snippet of code in the wiki
> page to work now, or how to make a modified version of
> "cross-build-mingw.sh" which will work for buildinig on mingw on a
> Windows machine.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> --
> Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com
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