[PATCH][W32] W32 and MSys compatibility

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:18 AM, LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 21.05.2012 16:37, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 4:09 PM, LRN <lrn1986 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> That said, when compiled with internal glib, pkg-config
>>>> unexplainably crashes on gthread-win32.c:343
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>>> Hmm, so it seems avoiding libintl needs some surgery and you're
>>> hitting a crash in the threading code. Do they seem related? Have
>>> you tried --with-internal-glib leaving the gettext/libintl code
>>> alone? Can you get a backtrace?
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>> gdb log is attached.
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> Hmm, that crash seems pretty independent of pkg-config unless we're
> initializing glib wrong or something. I wonder if you can try either
> to use pkg-config with the a full glib-2.32 version or just to write a
> stupid test program that just uses g_build_filename against the
> internal glib.

I tracked this down over the past few days. It turns out libglib
wasn't initializing correctly when built as a static library on
windows. I added a fix plus removed the gettext dependency as we
discussed. I briefly tried things in a windows vm and "make check"
passed. Can you try out git master and see if --with-internal-glib
works for you? I _think_ it should be working out of the box for
mingw/msys.

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Dan