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Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
Hans Breuer <hans@breuer.org>
The general parts, and the section about gcc and autoconfiscated build
are by Tor Lillqvist. The sections about MSVC build is by Hans Breuer.
Note that this document is not really maintained in a serious
fashion. Lots of information here might be misleading or outdated. You
have been warned.
The general parts, and the section about gcc and autoconfiscated
build, and about a Visual Studio build are by Tor Lillqvist. The
sections about MSVC build with NMAKE is by Hans Breuer.
General
=======
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To build GLib on Win32, you can use either gcc ("mingw") or the
Microsoft compiler and tools. For the latter, MSVC6 and later have
been used successfully. Also the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler have been
used.
been used successfully. Also the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler has
reportedly been used.
People have also successfully cross-compiled GLib for Win32 from Linux
using the cross-mingw packages.
You can also cross-compile GLib for Windows from Linux using the
cross-compiling mingw packages for your distro.
Note that to just *use* GLib on Windows, there is no need to build it
yourself.
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the same C runtime as the code that uses GLib. Such DLLs should be
named differently than the ones that use msvcrt.dll.
For GLib, the DLL is called libglib-2.0-0.dll, and the import
libraries libglib-2.0.dll.a and glib-2.0.lib. Note that the "2.0" is
part of the "basename" of the library, it is not something that
libtool has added. The -0 suffix is added by libtool and is the value
of "LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE". The 0 is *not* part of the version number of
GLib, although, for GLib 2.x.0, it happens to be the same. The
LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE value will on purpose be kept as zero as long as
binary compatibility is maintained. For the gory details, see
configure.in and libtool documentation.
For GLib, the DLL that uses msvcrt.dll is called libglib-2.0-0.dll,
and the import libraries libglib-2.0.dll.a and glib-2.0.lib. Note that
the "2.0" is part of the "basename" of the library, it is not
something that libtool has added. The -0 suffix is added by libtool
and is the value of "LT_CURRENT - LT_AGE". The 0 should *not* be
thought to be part of the version number of GLib. The LT_CURRENT -
LT_AGE value will on purpose be kept as zero as long as binary
compatibility is maintained. For the gory details, see configure.in
and libtool documentation.
Cross-compiling
===============
Building with Visual Studio
===========================
It is possible to build GLib using a cross compiler. See
docs/reference/glib/html/glib-cross-compiling.html (part of the GLib
reference manual) for more information.
In an unpacked tarball, you will find in build\win32\vs9 a solution
file that can be used to build the GLib DLLs and some auxiliary
programs. Read the README.txt file in that folder for more
information. Note that you will need a libintl implementation, and
zlib.
Building with MSVC
==================
Building with MSVC and NMAKE
============================
If you are building from a GIT snapshot, you will not have all
makefile.msc files. You should copy the corresponding makefile.msc.in