[gst-devel] Re: Native Win32 build of GStreamer 0.8.1

[Steve Lhomme]

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

>>So the easy approach is to generate those files on a Linux box and include
>>them verbatim in the Windows build. This requires however that those files
>>get regenerated properly whenever something changes (which is the reason
>>why they are autogenerated in the first place).
> 
> 
> I wouldn't mind to be doing this labor at release time, if this is what
> we chose to do.  Or even automate it so it gets done daily and the
> results commited to a separate dir in cvs.  But are we sure that the
> files generated on Linux work correctly on Windows ?

Maybe not. Because I was told that depending on the version of GLib you 
use, some generated files might differ.

BTW, the Win32 builds for GLib/GTK are already done with (and only) the 
dev tools from Microsoft (MSVC6 in their case). And they have some 
.win32 files when needed.