Re: Gnome for cygwin

[Jani tiainen <redetin at luukku dot com>]

Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hi Jani,
>
>
> I moved this thread to cygwin-apps, are you already subscribed there?

Not yet... But soon I'll will.

> you wrote:
>
> > I might be able to help with some... Since I'm messing with Gnome stuff
> > already... =)
>
>
> Great!  Yaakov and I have already started to port the most needed stuff.
> But there are so many packages, we really need more hands.
>
> What is already included:
> glib2
> atk
> pango
> gtk2
> libIDL
> ORBit2
> intltool
>
> plus some graphic libs and other prerequisites.
>
> Currently I'm working on libbonobo.
>
> Next needed packages are:
> gconf
> gnome-vfs

Well, how (in)convenient. I just had program that uses those libs... =)

> I have problems with the gnome-vfs testsuite, there are errors.
>
> If you could help to track this down?  If you need help with building
> libbonobo with shared libs I could send you my patches, but I guess I'll
> upload it the next weekend anyway.  Then all prerequisites to build
> gconf and gnome-vfs are fullfilled.
>
>
> Then there are still many pending packages, just pick one from the
> installationorder list and build it.  Look into the source packages
> which are already uploaded (e.g. libcroco or lcms for a small package or
> glib2 for a bigger package, we use the generic-build-script as base
> script, then modify it for splitting the distributed packages into devel
> and runtime and doc packages, plus some additional configure options
> (i.e. --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc), then add the path of a fresh
> compiled dll to global PATH when the dll is used during the build.  I
> posted a libtool patch recently, it is needed when using gcc-3.4 and
> latest binutils since there are tags in the objects which are not
> recognized by libtool.  I use a patch to libtool which is needed when
> fresh compiled executables which are used during the build.  Sometimes
> there is also needed to allow libtool to link in static libs like e.g.
> termcap into a dll.
>
>
> The patches are attached.
>
> The installation order list:
> shared-mime-info -> Yaakov has a version at his SF site already.
> gconf
> gnome-mime-data
> gnome-vfs
> libgnome
> libglade
> libgnomecanvas
> libbonoboui
> hicolor-icon-theme  (freedesktop.org)
> gnome-icon-theme
> gnome-keyring
> libgnomeui
> startup-notification
> gtk-engines
> gnome-themes
> scrollkeeper
> gnome-desktop
> libwnck
> gnome-panel
> gnome-session
> vte
> gnome-terminal
> libgtop
> gail
> libgtkhtml

Well I'll see what I can do about these. Can't really promise anything 
yet, but time will tell.

> Then I could need some hints how to initialize a Gnome session.
> How do I start the Gnome desktop?  This is really a stupid question, but
> I never found a simple 'Howto' about what needs to be started.  I would
> like a simple script like startxwin.sh which starts X when not already
> ruinning and fires up all what is needed to get the Gnome desktop on the
> screen, say startgnome.sh or so.

I recall that cygnome2 has pretty good instructions to start gnome.

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Jani Tiainen