Re: Win32 Cygwin Binary

Hi,

A few corrections....

1) Win32 does support dynamic linking. We used that on EB and AYTTM now.
I can fix what Stuart has done given the source. Or just start fresh.

2) I am working on the GTK version, its just slow. ;)

-Edward

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 08:24, Meredydd Luff wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2003 13:45, Stuart Longland wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I've just managed to get the EB-Lite to compile on my machine under
> > Cygwin (I was getting tired of Trillian) and so far, when I execute the
> > core, I get the following:
> >
> > $ eb-lite
> > Could not load registry: No such file or directory
> > Could not open module /usr/share/eb-lite/plugins/msn.la (dlopen: Win32
> > error 126
> > )
> *snip*
> That means it can't find the protocol modules, which isn't entirely 
> surprising given that Cygwin does not support dynamic linking (at least not 
> too readily). Try ./configure --with-static all to build all the modules 
> straight into the core.
> 
> > 	Is there a native Win32 GUI floating about (I recall hearing that
> > someone was working on one) or will I have to compile Qt under Cygwin
> > (and perhaps use XFree86/Cygwin) to get it running?
> There is no native Win32 UI yet. In fact, the Qt interface is currently the 
> only fully-featured one. Chris has succeeded in getting it to compile with 
> libx11, and I think has modified it so it should work straight-off now (if, 
> that is, you have Qt). Edward has mentioned that he intends to do a GTK one 
> sometime, which should have a windows version. Unfortunately, it's not going 
> to happen for a while. You could test the core by running a UI on a UNIX 
> machine and connecting it remotely, if you want.
> 
> Ideally, of course, we would get either a properly-native Win32 UI (in VB or 
> C# or something) - either that or someone ponies up a few thousand for a 
> windows Qt licence :-P
> 
> > 	I'm willing to distribute a binary tarball once I get this sucker going.
> That would be much appreciated!
> 
> Meredydd