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authorTor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org>1999-01-16 23:46:42 +0000
committerTor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org>1999-01-16 23:46:42 +0000
commitf477518c3af60dccfdd172abee0c7368e8f44189 (patch)
treea49e3518958eb7d6525068b2489b3e87f724d145 /README.win32
parent883776f0353e0cf3bf60f854bb1795e921748dcd (diff)
Merge in current Win32 version. Almost no Unix code touched.
* README.win32: More text. * config.h.win32 glibconfig.h.win32: Update to match the corresponding generated files on Unix. * makefile.msc: Update with new source files, and gthread library. Use the compiler flag -MD instead of using -D_DLL and "/nodefaultlib:libc msvcrt.lib" in the link phase. * glib.def: Include new functions, drop removed ones. * glib.h: Add comments about main loop and polling on Win32. (In general, it's only for the GIMP's use.) Add Win32 IO Channel functions. Remove the obsoleted old IO Channel stuff (which was in #if 0 already). * giowin32.c: New file. * gmain.c: Include config.h, conditionalize <sys/time.h> inclusion. Add g_poll implementation for Win32 (only for the GIMP's needs for now, it's hard or even impossible to be as clean and generic as on Unix). Implement g_get_current_time on Win32. If threads aren't supported, don't try to wake up main thread's loop. On Win32, use a semaphore and not a pipe to wake up the main loop. * gmessages.c: On Win32, allocate a console window if the standard output handle is invalid before writing to stdout, and reopen stdout to that console window. * giochannel.c: Conditionalize unistd.h inclusion. Some indentation cleanup. * gstrfuncs.c: Include <signal.h>. * gutils.c: On Win32, also check the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables. * gmodule-dl.c gmodule-dld.c: In _g_module_build_path, don't add the "lib" prefix and ".so" or ".sl" suffix if already there. * gmodule-win32.c: Likewise for the ".dll" suffix. * gthread-posix.c: Conditionalize <sys/time.h> inclusion.
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-For more information about the Windows port, see
-http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ .
+For more information about the port or GLib, GTk+ and the GIMP to
+native Windows, see http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ . ("Native"
+means that we use the Win32 API only, and not any POSIX emulation
+layer except that provided by the Microsoft runtime C library, and the
+pthreads emulation library from Cygnus.)
-As for now, only Microsoft C is really supported. Before compiling,
-check the BIN definition in makefile.msc. Compile with `nmake -f
-makefile.msc`. Install with `nmake -f makefile.msc install`. Gnu-Win32
-with egcs and maybe LCC-Win32 support will be added later.
+As for now, only the Microsoft compiler and tools are really
+supported. Before compiling, check the BIN definition in
+makefile.msc. Compile with `nmake -f makefile.msc`. Install with
+`nmake -f makefile.msc install`. Cygwin (without cygwin runtime,
+i.e. "mingw32") and maybe LCC-Win32 support will be added later. Note
+that when using the cygwin compiler and other tools *with* the cygwin
+runtime the normal Unix configuration method should work.
+
+The thread support uses the pthreads package from Cygnus, which isn't
+ready yet, and thus really should not be relied upon.