W dniu 8 stycznia 2010 04:06 użytkownik Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> napisał:
PS: I just installed WinXP in VirtualBox, and it works very well. I'll post a walkthrough on a wiki. This should enable more people to help with Windows problems.
Unfortunately, that helps only a little bit.
What is needed is for people to have a legal copy of the XP license. Microsoft doesn't really make these affordable, even years after threatening to EOL it.
It's rather hard to buy a PC without Windows in most countries, so I think most devs should have some license around. Vista should work as well. I used XP because that's what I had around, and because it takes a modest amount of disk space.
The wiki page is here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_development_on_Linux
However... glibmm has additional issues. This note at the top of their documentation page covers it:
This documentation is for the gtkmm-2.4 and gnomemm-2.6 APIs. There is an older gtkmm API called gtkmm-2.0 which can be installed in parallel. The gtkmm-2.4 name refers to the API/ABI series and not the release version. For instance, gtkmm 2.10 is a version of the gtkmm-2.4 API.
This note is unrelated to my question. It refers to the gtkmm ABI break that was made between 2.0 and 2.4 releases (a long time ago). Since then the ABI was preserved. For example I have gtkmm-2.4 version 2.18.2.
Regards, Krzysztof