Re: Porting gdome2 to Windows

Luca,

I tried the download that the archived message refers to, but its still 
just a binary. I'm looking for source. Since I have an itch to get gdome2 
on Windows, I'm willing to help, but it will be a few months before I have 
time.

John


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Luca Padovani wrote:

> Hello John,
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:56, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I've been looking on the gdome2 website, but I don't see any indication of 
> > plans to port the library to Windows.
> 
> the issue of porting gdome2 to windows has raised a few times on this
> mailing list. According to some emails, like
> 
> 	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdome/2004-May/msg00004.html
> 
> someone has also succeeded, but I personally have never tried the port
> and don't know if the current tarball is ready be compiled or if it
> still needs to be pacthed. In the latter case, as I've stated on
> different occasions, I'd be more than happy to have the patches
> integrated. For sure, I would not be able to provide the binaries myself
> as I don't have winXXX, but I guess there would be no problem arranging
> to have them linked from or hosted on our server.
> 
> >  By popular demand, I must port my 
> > xml2brl application, which uses gdome2. If the library isn't available on 
> > Windows I will have to fall back to libxml2.
> 
> stated like this, sounds like a threat :p winGdome2 users, speak up! :-)
> 
> --luca
> 

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