1. gedit for Windows

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gedit for Windows

1.1. The Easy Way

1.1.1. Download Binaries

Ready-built binaries are available from:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gedit/

1.2. The harder, but cooler way

1.2.1. Compile gEdit for Windows

step 1)

Download the tortoisesvn client for windows at:

http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

step 2)

Download MinGW, and do a full install.

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/mingw/

step 3)

Download MSYS, and do a full install.

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?groupname=mingw&filename=MSYS-1.0.10.exe&use_mirror=superb-west

step 4)

create new directory called C:\devel

step 5)

cd to c:\devel

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gedit/trunk/ gedit

create a new directory called c:\devel\gedit

step 6)

download:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnome-common/2.20

create and extract into a new directory called C:\devel\gnome-common

step 7)

create C:\opt

create c:\opt\gtk

step 10)

download autogen-5.9.2-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.tar

download perl-5.6.1-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2

step 11)

extract each file at to msys, just above the /usr directory to your C:\MSYS\1.0\ directory

These files are found in the: C:\msys\1.0\local\bin directory

step 12)

download automake and autoconf sources from:

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/

I tried using the precompiled versions from the MSYS website but the most recent ones were buggy. The versions I built from source were:

autoconf-2.61

automake-1.10.1

In case you dont know how to build from sources run the following commands:

./configure

make

make install

step 13)

add these environment varibales to /etc/profile

export INTLTOOL_PERL="/c/Perl/bin/perl"
export PKG_CONFIG="/opt/gtk/bin/pkg-configh.sh"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/gtk/lib/pkg-config"
export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /opt/gtk/share/aclocal"

And this paths to your path argument:

/opt/gtk/bin

step 14)

At this point you should create two download folders one for dev packages and one for binary packages

download libtool1.5-1.5.25a-1-bin.tar

and put it in the bin folder

download http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/libtool-lib-zip.php

and put it in the dev folder

It is good to keep these downloads seperate because later it's easier to package

These are available from:

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

extract the both archives into /opt/gtk

step 15)

download and install the following

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html LibIntl (dev and bin)?

(extract into your /opt/gtk directory)

step 16)

download and install these to opt/gnome http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32 (extract this one into c:\msys\1.0

then create this in /usr/lib/libiconv.la

# libiconv.la - a libtool library file
# Generated by ltmain.sh - GNU libtool fake
dlname='../bin/iconv.dll'
library_names='libiconv.a'
old_library='libiconv.dll'
dependency_libs=
installed=yes
dlopen=
dlpreopen=
libdir='/c/msys/1.0'

step 17 )

the pkg-config found on websites dont seem to work so it needs to be built from sources

http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/

run ./configure --prefix /opt/gtk/

edit the Makefile the following things needed to be changed:

PKG_CONFIG = /opt/gtk/bin/pkg-config.sh included_glib_includes = -I/opt/gtk/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/gtk/lib/glib-2.0/include pkg_config_LDADD = -L/opt/gtk/lib -lglib-2.0 -liconv

create a pkg-config.sh file where your pkg-config file was installed to. Insert this code into it.

if pkg-config "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
res=true
else
res=false
fi
pkg-config "$@" | tr -d \\r && $res

step 18 )

open MYSYS and cd into /devel/gnome-common

run ./configure make make install

step 19 )

change the following lines:

REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION=${REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION:-0.4.2}
...
if grep "^GNOME_DOC_INIT" $configure_ac >/dev/null; then
    want_gnome_doc_utils=true
fi
...
if $want_gnome_doc_utils; then
    version_check gnome-doc-utils GNOME_DOC_PREPARE gnome-doc-prepare $REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION \
        "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-doc-utils/" || DIE=1
fi
...
if grep "^GNOME_DOC_INIT" $basename >/dev/null; then
    printbold "Running $GNOME_DOC_PREPARE..."
    $GNOME_DOC_PREPARE --force --copy || exit 1
fi
...
if [ "x$USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD" = "xyes" ]; then
    version_check gnome-common DOC_COMMON gnome-doc-common \
        $REQUIRED_DOC_COMMON_VERSION " " || DIE=1
fi

#REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION=${REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION:-0.4.2}
...
#if grep "^GNOME_DOC_INIT" $configure_ac >/dev/null; then
#    want_gnome_doc_utils=true
#fi
...
#if $want_gnome_doc_utils; then
#    version_check gnome-doc-utils GNOME_DOC_PREPARE gnome-doc-prepare $REQUIRED_GNOME_DOC_UTILS_VERSION \
#        "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-doc-utils/" || DIE=1
#fi
...
#if grep "^GNOME_DOC_INIT" $basename >/dev/null; then
#    printbold "Running $GNOME_DOC_PREPARE..."
#    $GNOME_DOC_PREPARE --force --copy || exit 1
#fi
...
#if [ "x$USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD" = "xyes" ]; then
#    version_check gnome-common DOC_COMMON gnome-doc-common \
#        $REQUIRED_DOC_COMMON_VERSION " " || DIE=1
#fi

step 20 ) get the gtk-doc package

copy gtkdocize.in to gtkdocize

edit it:

@PACKGAGE@ => gtk-doc
@VERSION@ => 1.3
@PREFIX@ => /opt/gtk
@datadir@ => /opt/gtk/share

then run the following commands

cp gtk-doc.m4 /opt/gtk/share/aclocal
cp gtkdocize /opt/gtk/bin
mkdir -p /opt/gtk/share/gtk-doc/data/
cp gtk gtk-doc.make /opt/gtk/share/gtk-doc/data

Step 21 )

http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

extract this into /opt/gtk

step 22 )

download the latest verions of these (the devel versions):

gnome-vfs

gtksourceview

libart_lgpl

libbonobo

libbonoboui

libgnome

libgnomecanvas

Atk-1.22.0

from:

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/

extract these into /opt/gtk/

also download the binaries as you will need these to actually run gedit after you compile it

extract these (the binaries) into a seperate folder for packaging gedit.

step 23 )

libart-2.3.20

FreeType 2-9.16.3

libZ

from

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/

libXML-2.6.30

from

http://developer.pidgin.im/static/win32/libxml2-2.6.30.tar.gz

create libxml.pc in /opt/gtk/lib/pkgconfig

prefix=/devel/target/f395ca5ef06001c341567c2c0043b7d3
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: libxml-2.0
Description: Libxml
Version: 2.6.30
Libs: -L${libdir} -llibxml
Libs.private: -L/opt/misc/lib -lexpat
Cflags: -I${includedir}

gettext gettext-runtime

from

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/

Fontconfig-2.4.1

libexpat (extract the binary)

From:

http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

step 24)

The version of gtksourceview available on gnome win32 is too old so we have to build it from source...

download the latest version from:

http://gtksourceview.sourceforge.net/

./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk make make install

step 25)

Finally !

cd /devel/gedit ./configure --prefix=/c/gedit make make install

make this dir C:\gedit\share\gedit-2\ui copy gedit-ui.xml into it

make a .bat file at the root (C:\gedit)

set PATH=C:\gedit\gtk\bin;%PATH%
C:\gedit\bin\gedit.exe

1.2.2. What is left to be done

gedit-local-document-saver.c

// hacked but not as much

//commented out some permissions stuff

gedit-help.c

//commented out some line about an include that doesnt exist because we arnt going to use gnome help

gedit-print.c // hacked beyound reconigtion

gedit.c //if (startup_timestamp <= 0) // startup_timestamp = gdk_x11_get_server_time (GTK_WIDGET (window)->window);

//gdk_x11_window_set_user_time (GTK_WIDGET (window)->window, // startup_timestamp);

gedit-app.c

// getppid stuff needs to be converted to windows

bacon-message.c

// hacked damaged

// SOCKETS BROKEN

gedit-mmap-document-loader.c

// damaged really bad too

// working on compiling a newer version of gtksourceview which should fix this i think

1.3. Screen Shot

geditwindows.jpg

1.4. External Credits

Some steps were taken from:

http://www.go-evolution.org/Building_Evolution_on_Windows

Useful Links

http://marcin.af.gliwice.pl/gtk-win32-development

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.14/2.14.2/win32/

ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/win32/

http://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Compiling_FileZilla_3_under_Windows

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435