Re: 0.34 Beta1 Windows builds

Hello!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon A. Cruz" <[email protected]>
> A simple run-time check of Win9x versus WinNT is not too hard. I've
> gotten some base testing of this done. The filename calls themselves are
> straightforward. The main next step is to track down all the file IO and
> ensure that the proper Win32 calls are used when needed.
>
> It makes sections of code that make Win32 calls a little longer...
> however these should be minimized and encapsulated anyway. Also this
> will remove the need for unicows.dll, and thus simplify the build
> requirements for third parties.
>
> Basically, by making a few things explicit in the code, we can make it
> easier for anyone using any tools to build Sodipodi and get proper
> non-ASCII support. (Good for Mingw users, cross-compiling people, maybe
> even Borland users, etc.).

File IO is relatively trivial. Still there is font handling, where unicows
would
help a lot (no need with messing with unicode/codepage conversions in client
side code).

> I've been keeping in touch with the core "win32" glib guys on this. Once
> I get things solid and tested they have no problems with it even making
> it into the core glib/gtk+ sources. But if the code is in Sodipodi
> initially, then there will be no problems with making people wait for
> the next (2.4?) glib/gtk+ release.

Certain core parts of sodipodi do not use glib anyways, so we will
need core implementation ourselves.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski




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