Re: [Caml-list] LablGTK for OCaml 3.12 on Windows

[Romain Bardou <bardou@lsv.ens-cachan.fr>]

Le 22/02/2012 15:00, Romain Bardou a écrit :
> Le 22/02/2012 14:56, Adrien a écrit :
>> On 22/02/2012, Romain Bardou<bardou@lsv.ens-cachan.fr> wrote:
>>> Here:
>>> http://old.nabble.com/LablGtk-2.14.2-td29736415.html
>>> I read that "The windows release will have to wait for a windows version
>>> of ocaml 3.12...".
>>>
>>> Will LablGTK be released now that OCaml 3.12.1 is available on Windows?
>>> The README.Win32 file is a little bit scary (quote: "Full compilation
>>> with MSVC or mingw (for the brave)").
>>
>> Hi Romain,
>>
>> The compilation of lablgtk2 on windows doesn't have particular issues
>> or difficulties but it's still windows.
>>
>> The "for the brave" part is probably a bit too scary (I guess it's
>> quite old and the situation has worse back then). I think you can
>> compile it by yourself in a matter of minutes if your environment is
>> already set-up (i.e. gcc and ocaml).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Adrien Nader
>>
>
> Thanks for your answer Adrien. I guess I will try compiling myself
> eventually!
>
> Cheers,
>


Hi list,

An update on this: I successfully compiled LablGTK with OCaml 3.12 / 
MinGW and my application runs (almost) fine.

There was one thing which confused me: in LablGTK's README.Win32 file, 
it says to go at http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net; but these do not 
work, at least with LablGTK 2.14.2. I tried to tweak some environment 
variables so that the headers were found, but then it failed to link due 
to some symbol missing. I guess it's due to the version of GTK there 
being 2.12?

I had to use the "Bundle" from 
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.14/, which works fine.

Cheers,

-- 
Romain Bardou