Open steelcowboy opened 7 years ago
Admittedly I not sure where to start, the buildscript is gnomebuild.sh I think people familiar with mingw/msys will get a hang of it. But yes it's horrible mess (compared to msys2 build system). The gcc compiler need to be customized, the one I prepared was https://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/gcc485_sjlj32_seh64_boost155_static.7z/download
Therefor where to start? nb: I'm not good at documenting or english overall
No problem, I completely understand. Here are a few questions I have that it would nice to have in your README:
1) What do I need to run the gnomebuild.sh? Do I need mingw? Can I use msys2? 2) Will I need to download that gcc to my build environment, and how can I customize it myself? 3) Where are all of the patches coming from?
Some of these may be answerable by reading gnomebuild.sh, but in order to get started you want your devs to just be able to jump in, make a build, and then look at the source later for hacking.
If you want to email me at james.r.heald@gmail.com and correspond with me I can help write up some of that documentation if you'd like :)
Oh and currently I'm stuck https://sourceforge.net/p/pygobjectwin32/tickets/50/ (don't have time to debug it as well) I have no idea how to use msvcrt 2015 with gcc nor will it feasible to use vs2015 compiler to build all of these stuff.
in fact lately I started to think if I still need to maintain pygobjectwin32 considering msys2 support it as well and more developer friendly (I think mine is more user friendly, the installer that is).
Could you provide some documentation on how to build this? I think it would be nice to have better support for python-gobject on Windows and I think development would flow more smoothly if you had more people helping you ;)
And by that, of course, I imply that I would love to help out myself!