[Geany] Geany SVN windows build.

F. Cami fcami.ext at xxxxx
Thu Jul 20 14:49:14 UTC 2006


Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 20/07/06 13:22:01, F. Cami wrote:
>> Nick Treleaven wrote:
>>
>>> I did notice a general problem with Find in files though, I will 
>>> disable it for a Windows build until we have a workaround for 
>>> GIOChannel. Anyone running this SVN Windows build should avoid using 
>>> Find in files - it will probably segfault.
>>
>> Never tell me to avoid doing something... :)
>>
>> Find in files works fine here. XP SP2 + GTK+ 2.8.9. Any test case to 
>> reproduce the bug ?
> Interesting - the results appear in the Messages window just like on *nix?

Yes. I use grep from unxutils and specified the path to grep.exe in 
geany's config, and it works just like on *nix.

> This means there must be a workaround in GLib (2.8) to make 
> g_io_channel_unix_new work in Windows; perhaps it just calls 
> g_io_channel_win32_new_fd internally. This may only work with Windows XP 
> - I will try this on a friend's laptop.
> 
> In Windows 2000 I think FIF segfaulted once but after that the results 
> would scroll past in a command shell and disappear before I could read 
> them; in Windows ME it always segfaulted.
> 
> I will look into this before the 0.8 release, and if possible just 
> disable Windows FIF on GLib < 2.8 or WinME/2K.
> 
> This is interesting because we could enable other uses of GIOChannel on 
> Windows, e.g. for building; but this is probably a fair way off yet.

This would be nice, indeed.

Best,

François




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