[pygtk] Pygtk 2.14 Win64 binaries for python 2.6

Alberto Ruiz aruiz at gnome.org
Fri Aug 28 17:30:05 WST 2009


2009/8/28 Carlos Alberto Flores <cafg10 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/8/27 Alberto Ruiz <aruiz at gnome.org>
> Yes it uses C99 variable style, but the C source files are autogenerated and
> they have to be manually tweaked in order to compile it, is a shame they
> dont want to bother about it, since C99 is not really a requirement even for
> cairo.

That's a good point, I will mention it on the bug thread.

> The patch is almost exactly the way i managed to compile pycairo, btw i hate
> those spurious CXXXX errors msvc uses to indicate some error, it is simply
> not obvious to have to find the whole msdn website to track down a compiler
> error.

Hah, I don't feel alone anymore!

> Well even microsoft has to support this feature (really unlikely), or
> pycairo surrender its thinking of being bleeding edge by using a lot of c99
> features, i really think steve is really busy, those seem like automated
> responses :D

That is my feeling too.

> About the compiling instructions, what i need to post is the patchs for the
> modified *.defs files while using setup.py, what i will do during the
> weekend, i have done all this because our company uses a turbogears based
> intranet app and some management apps uses pygtk, we are migrating to
> windows server x64 so it is most likely this packages will be actively
> mantained while i have the IT management under my charge.

Those are great news, btw, join the #win32 channel at irc.gimp.org!

-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz


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