Johan wrote:

Currently we use 'buildtool' to build Inkscape on windows, which works perfect. Should we therefore still keep Makefile.mingw and its friends up to date? I cannot 'make' Inkscape with gtk210 because "-I$(GTK)/include/cairomm-1.0 " is missing in the include paths. When added it works fine, for the first files, but compilation stops at /dom/io/socket.cpp (plus i get a GLIBMM_DLL redefinition warning for a lot of files)

Also, I tried the latest build from http://inkscape.modevia.com/ and it crashes when the global pref window is opened.

Lots of build problems right before the release :S

Note that when I do 'buildtool dist' I get no errors and a nice working Inkscape distribution (that does not crash on opening pref dialog), but with the locale language files not properly copied.

1. Should 'make' be made to work properly on Windows. If yes,

with gtk2.10 of gtk2.8? 2. inkscape.modevia.com crosscompiles I think; does that cause the crashes on pref. dialog?

Note that it is not that hard to get correct builds from 'make': only Makefile.mingw.common has to be updated a bit which was real easy. My question is therefore: should this be done in future and be committed to SVN? Maybe only for this release for the last time? And then after the release, delete all mingw makefiles, so there is no confusion anymore?