[Demexp-dev] Newer clients under win32 platform

[GISQUET Christophe]

Hello,

I've just tried to quickly reinstall a build environment suitable for demexp 
and managed to produce some installers, as usual available at 
http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/demexp/

While 0.6.3 went as expected like a breeze, 0.7 versions were a total PITA, in 
particular for gettext support (yay for ocaml!): the number of dependencies is 
ludicrous. Which by the way does not work, but more on this later.

So we have:

0.6.3 which is alike the previous versions, except for the installer which has 
the demexp:// URI and desktop shortcut suggested on some page of the website.

0.7-dev which corresponds to some demexp--0.7-dev I saw on David's demexp 
page, and for which I forced my way through gettext by sed'ing away s_/f_/open 
 Gettext. It works, albeit the i18n support is of course not getting in the way.

0.7-22778c97efe4 (an automatically generated tarball) is the real killer here: 
- building gettext requires an ocaml 3.09 version; I'll start a specific 
thread on that matter
- the DemexpGettext module does let dir = None (equivalent to 
$prefix/share/locale ?) which I suspect won't work under windows
- I couldn't understand how to simply build the .mo files from the makefile, 
and had to do a cd po; make -f ../Makefile fr.mo (yay for the new perl 
dependency btw)
- the binary stops (not a crash, gdb shows an exit code of 2 without crash) 
after the anonymous message box; it's probably not related to gettext, so I'll 
start yet another thread for it
So, yes, it's probably a problem of the "if it hurts, don't do it (alone)" 
kind, but it has been quite frustrating.

I haven't included the GTK runtime as one can get it from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk+-2.8.18-setup-1.zip?download
or
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/modules/wfdownloads/visit.php?lid=102

The later one is preferred as I have better reasons to believe it has the 
glade2 runtime contrary to the former link.

I'm not attaching any change I had to do, because I tried to spend as little 
time as possible on this, and doing manual diffs for all changed files against 
an unpolluted tree is not something I consider quick enough for now.

I've registered to the -dev list, so you don't need to Cc: me. I however plan 
to withdraw my registration as soon the win32 build matters are settled.

Best regards,
--
Christophe GISQUET