Re: Building for windows
Daniel Benamy <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Rob Caelers <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just cloned the git repo and I'm trying to build for windows but I'm >> a bit stuck. I found the directions in build/win32/README which say: >> cd frontend/gtkmm/win32/setup >> make-runtime.sh ../../../.. >> but I don't have a make-runtime.sh in that dir or in my path. There's >> one in build/win32/tinderbox/ but it seems these directions may be >> outdated so other things may have changed as well. Can anyone tell me >> how to do this? > > The README is indeed a little outdated: I no longer build Workrave on Windows > using MinGW (and never did really...); The Windows version of Workrave is > cross-compiled on Linux. That's what I was trying to do. > Furthermore, Workrave can also be compiled (and debugged!) using Visual Studio > (also Express Edition). See README in build/cmake. (Only networking is > currently not easy to build on Windows; mail me if you need this) Here's a quick patch to update the READMEs. I'm pretty new at git so something may be wrong. Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Workrave-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/workrave-user
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From 4572e8f32dd31889c1059c6ec64e6ba2540347ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Benamy <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:57:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updated docs for building for windows. --- build/cmake/README | 4 +++- build/win32/README | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/build/cmake/README b/build/cmake/README index 3655141..f150bc4 100755 --- a/build/cmake/README +++ b/build/cmake/README @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ using Microsoft Visual Studio (2008 Express Edition). The minimal requirement is gtkmm, Directx SDK and cmake. +Only networking is currently not easy to build on Windows. + Install Gtkmm (required) ======================== @@ -140,4 +142,4 @@ Compiling Workrave - Open Workrave solution in visual studio (location in workrave-build directory) - Build - \ No newline at end of file + diff --git a/build/win32/README b/build/win32/README index 1fa9211..9c18d5d 100644 --- a/build/win32/README +++ b/build/win32/README @@ -1,9 +1,12 @@ Compiling Workrave for Windows ****************************** -The Windows version of Workrave is cross compiled on Linux. This -document describes how to setup a cross compile environment and how to -compile Workrave in four easy steps: +The Windows version of Workrave can be compiled (and debugged!) using Visual +Studio (including Express Edition) on windows, or cross compiled on Linux. + +To build on windows, see README in build/cmake. This document (which is a +little outdated) describes how to setup a cross compile environment and how +to compile Workrave in four easy steps: 1. Installing MinGW cross compiler 2. Installing 3rd party packages -- 1.6.3.3