Message-ID: <3EA91DD1.8010709 at lix.polytechnique.fr>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:36:49 +0200
From: Benjamin Monate <monate at lix.polytechnique.fr>
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To: Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: lablgtk on windows ...
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This is not easy, but it is feasable.

Here is a small howto about Gtk 2 on Win32:

0) Install cygwin base devel. tools with gcc-mingw. First check your 
installation by trying to compile a hello world C program with
    gcc -mno-cygwin  -mms-bitfields main.c
 
1)  Install Gtk 2: use the precompiled binaries available at 
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
     Do NOT even try to compile it yourself from scratch.

You need to install :
 -libiconv
 -libintl
 -gettext-dev
 -glib-2.2.1 runtime+dvel
 -pkgconfig
 -zlib libpng libjpeg libtiff freetype runtime+devel
 -gtk+-2.2.1 runtime+dev
 -atk-1.03  runtime+dev
 -pango-1.2.1 runtime+dev
 
Unzip all these in the base directory (something like X:\cygwin )

Try to compile a small hello-gtk.c (see the tutorial page on 
http://www.gtk.org) before going further.


2) Compile OCaml 3.06 for mingw. This is needed as INRIA does not 
provide precompiled version. Follow the instructions in the README
    for mingw. Edit the configuration file and replace all occurences of 
-fnative-struct by "-mms-bitfields -mno-cygwin". Then make opt.opt.
    (you do not need Tk, do you ?).

 

At this step "ocamlc hello.ml", "ocamlopt hello.ml", "ocaml" should  
work ok.


Before compiling lablgtk2, you need to manualy compile 
tools/ocamlmklib.ml. Edit this file with sensible values for variables 
from bindir to ranlib then "make ocamlmklib" and install it to your bindir.

3) now proceed with lablgtk2:
    "make configure" and the "make all opt" should succeed.

 Install and test.
 

Hope this will help you. I just did something like that two weeks ago, 
so I hope I did not forget any step...

Friendly
Benjamin Monate

Sven Luther wrote:

>Hello, ...
>
>I am urgently in need for help on how to run lablgtk on windows, i need
>to build a lablgtk app that has to run on a windows computer. I passed
>all morning trying to build glib on cygwin, and failed miserably, i hate
>windows. ocaml built fine, why, o why, can't cygnus also provide
>glib/gtk packages :((((
>
>So, what is the correct way to building lablgtk on windows ? What
>compiler, ocaml, gtk+ and such are used ? 
>
>Any help would be welcome.
>
>Friendly,
>
>Sven Luther
>  
>