Re: Statement of Support (and some child-like giddiness)
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)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,