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For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to
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native Windows, and pre-built binary packages, see
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http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ . "Native" means that we use the
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Win32 API only, and not any POSIX emulation layer except that provided
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by the Microsoft runtime C library. Additionally the pthreads
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emulation library is used.
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As for now, to build GLib on Win32, you need the Microsoft compiler
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and tools. Both the compiler from MSVC 5.0 and MSVC 6.0 have been used
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successfully.
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Before building you must get the pthreads library for Windows from
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http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/. Edit the location of the
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pthreads library and include files in makefile.msc. Also edit the BIN
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definition in makefile.msc.
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Build with `nmake -f makefile.msc`. Install with `nmake -f
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makefile.msc install`.
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Support for building using the cygwin tools (without depending on the
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cygwin runtime, i.e. "mingw32"), and maybe LCC-Win32 might be added
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later. When using the cygwin tools *with* the cygwin runtime the
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normal Unix configuration method should work as if on Unix (knock on
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wood).
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With a little work, it might be possible to use the ./configure
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mechanism also with a "mingw32" configuration. I.e. building GLib for
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Win32 would use the cygwin tools (and runtime), but the produced
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libraries would not depend on the cygwin runtime being present.
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The following preprocessor macros are used for conditional compilation
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related to Win32:
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- WIN32 is defined when compiling for the Win32 platform, regardless
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if using the X11 or Win32 windowing API (in the case of GLib, this
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dimension isn't significant), regardless whether using a more or
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less complete POSIX emulation runtime layer (like Cygwin) or not.
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- NATIVE_WIN32 is defined when compiling for Win32, *and* without
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any POSIX emulation, other that to the extent provided by the
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(Microsoft) C library, or the pthreads-win32 library. For instance,
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pathnames use the native Windows syntax.
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- _MSC_VER is defined when using the Microsoft compiler.
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Currently the Win32 port uses the combination with all three of those
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on, but eventually the cygwin compiler and tools will be supported
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also, and in that case _MSC_VER wouldn't be defined.
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Some of the usage of these macros is probably a bit mixed up, and will
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have to be straightened out when actually trying other combinations.
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The pthreads for Win32 package that the thread support uses isn't
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released yet, and thus threads really should not be relied upon.
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