| 1 | This directory contains various stuff that is used when building |
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| 2 | software from the GNOME CVS (and dependent software) on uncommon |
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| 3 | platforms. So far, it contains: |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | - makefile snippets and scripts used when building GLib, GTk+, |
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| 6 | and related software for Win32 with gcc or .with MSVC's command line |
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| 7 | tools, when not using the GNU auto*/configure/libtool mechanism |
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| 8 | |
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| 9 | - some auxiliary scripts that are used when using libtool, for things |
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| 10 | that libtool doesn't handle currently. |
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| 11 | |
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| 12 | - the <dirent.h> implementation from (the public domain) mingw |
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| 13 | runtime, separated for the benefit of MSVC builds. |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | In order to generate DLLs with version resources included (a nice |
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| 16 | touch, and more Windows style), we need support for compiling and |
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| 17 | including resources with DLL version number. Currently this knowledge |
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| 18 | is not in libtool, but in the compile-resource and lt-compile-resource |
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| 19 | scripts here in the win32 subdirectory. |
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| 20 | |
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| 21 | (Originally, this directory was intended to be used by a build system |
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| 22 | for GNOME, written in Python. See CVS for the original README |
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| 23 | text. Apparently this concept never was taken into use, and this |
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| 24 | directory hadn't been touched for two years, when I got the idea to |
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| 25 | use this suitably named directory for another purpose. The original |
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| 26 | author, Jay Painter, has okayed this.) |
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| 27 | |
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| 28 | Tor Lillqvist |
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| 29 | tml@iki.fi |
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