[pygtk] building pygobject on windows

[Dave Peticolas]

Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Dave Peticolas <dave at krondo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
>> which I've been running into. The patch fixes my problems in Linux,
>> so I'd like to build pygobject 2.14.2 for Windows with that patch
>> applied, if possible.
> 
> we have attempted many times to build pygobject on windows lately, with no luck
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562790
> 
> you definitely would be my hero if you do succeed :)
> 
> I've cc'd Cedric which usually builds on windows, I hope he would give
> his opinion/help.
> 
> cheers

Sure, I'll give it a try, though I'm mainly interested in building
the version that's already available for Windows, just with the patch
applied. Is it just the latest versions that don't build?

Also, is it better to build on cygwin, or VC++, or maybe cross-compile?

thanks,
dave