Re: [Pan-users] Re: Win32 build/installer of GIT updates

[Steve Davies]

2009/7/9 walt <address@hidden>:
> On 07/08/2009 02:10 PM, Steve Davies wrote:
>>
>> I am just in the process of uploading a new build/installer package
>> based on the GIT snapshot from 07/Jul/2009.
>>
>> It is in the usual place http://paninstall.googlepages.com/ until
>> Google migrate it elsewhere.
>>
>> Let me know if you find any problems. The build was not particularly
>> easy :( I had to update to gmime 2.4, which was a pain, but which I
>> hope was successful.
>
> Very good of you to provide this service to pan fans, thanks.

No problem. :)

> I try not to run Windows if I can avoid it, so I'm very vague about
> how to build linux code on Windows.

I use both equally, so it is useful to have a Win build
>
> If your Windows pan needs gtk already installed, then why doesn't it
> also need gmime and glib and maybe a few other libs already installed?
>
> Hit me wit da cluestick, please ;-)
>

Simple really, you build those libraries statically and link them into
the exe :) From what I've read, building them as win32 DLLs is
virtually impossible anyway. GTK on the other hand needs to hook into
the Windows graphical layer, so the effort was made to package it as
DLLs for all of those GTK apps out there.

That's my understanding of it anyway.

Steve