Re: Pike 8.0.162 release candidate

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Peter Bortas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Windows build:
>>
>>     https://pike.lysator.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/8.0.162/Pike-v8.0.162-win32-oldli
>> bs.msi
>>
>> I did some work on building newer support libs for Windows, but that
>> ended up being 6 hours of mostly frustration. So Nettle, GMP, GTK and
>> Freetype are all still versions from 2008 or so. That build will
>> probably not be promoted to a real release. Use it at your own
>> risk. I'll have another go at that in the coming weeks.
>>
>
> Hmm. I'd like to help out with GTK, at least - the regression against
> current stable Pike (which is shipping 2.24.10 in the .msi) is a
> problem for me, as I depend at least 2.16 for some features. The last
> time I had GTK versioning issues on Windows, I put together this
> collection of ready-to-go DLLs:
>
> http://rosuav.com/gtk/
>
> Dropping those files into the pike/bin directory makes GTK2.version()
> return 2, 24, 10, but since the module wasn't actually built against
> that version, functions like GTK2.Entry()->set_icon_from_stock simply
> don't exist. So presumably it'll need to be done at an earlier step in
> the build process.

Fixing GTK is probably less work than GMP/Nettle, but it's not
something I've even looked at yet. I'll see if I can just plot your
stuff or something more recent in there.

-- 
Peter Bortas