[Geany] make in Windows disabled

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:12:53 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

Hi,

> > I've noticed that under Windows in the Preferences -> Tools the
> > edit control for make is disabled. Why is that?
> 
> Build support in Windows has always been disabled. The reason was
> that g_io_channel functions didn't work at all, until about GLib
> 2.10. It might be worth enabling it now however. I don't know of a
> neat way to check if g_io_channel_* work, and with which Windows
> versions they work with. I think this needs to be looked into, so we
> can disable the build commands as necessary.
> 
> The Find in Files function also uses g_io_channel and it seems to
> work on Windows XP with a recent Gtk/GLib runtime (this isn't
> disabled on windows, I guess this is inconsistent ;-)). One minor
There are some more things which should be disabled or get fixed for
Windows, e.g. the custom commands. I will work on this soon.

> annoyance is that it always (IME) pops up a command-prompt window,
> which then disappears.
Same problem with custom commands(among other problems). Perhaps
gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe or gspawn-win32-helper.exe can be
useful. But I still didn't find any docs or usage hints.

Regards,
Enrico

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