Statement of Support (and some child-like giddiness)

[Ryan McDougall]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 05:56:49PM +0200, Ryan McDougall wrote:
>> I just happened to stumble across this while wondering when Fedora 11
>> might be out, and let me say you have set my poor heart a-flutter!
>>
>> Extremely timely for me, as I am trying to build Telepathy framework
>> for windows. Its all portable C, but woven hard into autotools and
>> other assumptions, its a bit tedious to have to boot into windows then
>> massage it into Cmake. This would literally be a massive time saver.
>> You have my support and love.
>>
>> What can I do to help out?
>
> I had a brief look -- Telepathy framework looks big and complicated.
>
> The fact it uses autoconf is good from a cross-compiling point of
> view.  In many cases you should be able to do:
>
>  # yum install mingw32-{any libraries required}
>  $ mingw32-configure
>  $ make
>
> The big question is what libraries / dependencies it has, especially
> any dependencies which are not currently in the Fedora MinGW project.
>
> If you get any build problems, post them here and we can take a look.
> We also have an IRC channel - #fedora-mingw on FreeNode.
>
> Rich.

Based on my current work I think it is:

expat, gettext, dbus, glib, dbus-glib, telepathy-glib, loudmouth,
telepathy-gabble

There could be some other subtle ones; and eventually GTK2 slips in there.

I'll have more detail when I can give this a shot with my team on monday.

Cheers,