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Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:58:31 +0200
From: Benjamin Monate <monate at lix.polytechnique.fr>
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To: Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>
Cc: lablgtk <lablgtk at kaba.or.jp>
Subject: Re: lablgtk on windows ...
References: <20030425114457.GA1558 at iliana> <3EA91DD1.8010709 at lix.polytechnique.fr> <20030425130710.GA2677 at iliana>
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Sven Luther wrote:

>Ok, will try that, altough since i managed to build ocaml, it should be
>ok, no ?
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If you manage to compile a Caml prog to native code yes, this is enough.
 

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>>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
>>-pkgconfig
>>-zlib libpng libjpeg libtiff freetype runtime+devel
>>    
>>
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>All these are available as cygwin packages.
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Yes . But be careful with the version numbers. Especially with pkgconfig.

>>Try to compile a small hello-gtk.c (see the tutorial page on 
>>http://www.gtk.org) before going further.
>>    
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>Will try.
>
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>>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 ?).
>>    
>>
>
>No, i don't need tk, since i have lablgtk, and bytecode only would be
>enough for me.
>
>That said, make bootstrap doesn't reach fix point when building the
>bytecode compiler, should i worry about this ?
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No. This has probably something to do with date information in binary 
headers.
"make opt.opt" is enough.


>>At this step "ocamlc hello.ml", "ocamlopt hello.ml", "ocaml" should  
>>work ok.
>>    
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>Yes, this i managed to do.
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Cool. You are on the right path :-)

>Yes, it is very helpfull, maybe this same mail could be added to the
>lablgtk web site or something such ? 
>  
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Yes. As soon as you confirm that  I forgot nothing, I will do this.

>Now, the next step would be to have all that available for the mingw32
>crosscompiler, so windows exexutables could be generated from linux
>without needing to switch to the dark side. :)))
>But i think that ocaml is not yet ready for building a cross compiler.
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You are right. We need a little help from INRIA for this. Jacques :-) do 
you hear this ?


Keep me informed of your progresses.


Benjamin