[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Cross-Compile problem

[Matthew Trey]

Reporting back on the cross compilation using the latest and greatest source 
packages.

the cross compile works great with the options suggested with one small 
change, it should be:

mingw32-config --without-rsvg --without-sdlpango
(just rsvg and not librsvg .. I know.. semantics...)

the only other problem I had was that tuxtype was quitting without warning 
when either the
cascade or laser game tried to load, but my build of SDL_image was to blame 
here.  I did
not have libjpeg installed and SDL_image quietly turned off jpeg support 
during configure.  The result was that
when tuxtype tried to load the jpeg backgrounds, SDL_image gave nothing and 
the application
just quit.

SO if anyone else runs into that problem, check to make sure you have 
libjpeg before you build SDL_image!

Thanks for the help Dave.

- Matt Trey



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>
To: "Matthew Trey" <tux4kids at treyhome.com>
Cc: <tux4kids-tuxtype-dev at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Cross-Compile problem


> Hi Matthew,
>
> On 8/14/09, Matthew Trey <tux4kids at treyhome.com> wrote:
>> Hello, I would like to kick the tires, so to say, on tuxtype.  After some
>> wrestling with the fedora mingw32 packages, I got most of the 
>> dependencies
>> compiled and ready to go.  Then I went to compile tuxtype,  the linker 
>> came
>> back complaining that it needs librsvg.  OK no problem, just 1 more 
>> library
>> right?  Not so easy.  Librsvg requires popt and when I try to compile 
>> popt,
>> the sky falls.
>
> The win32 crossbuilds I've done for tuxmath and tuxtype are for
> versions prior to this year when we added several new dependencies,
> including librsvg.  I have not yet worked on trying to add librsvg to
> my cross-build setup.  If anything, thanks for the heads-up on this.
> My system is x86-64 Debian - not sure if I will have the same issues
> or different ones.  The plan is to try to tackle this after GSoC winds
> down.
>
> In the past I made a brief attempt to support libsdl_pango in the
> crossbuild and ran into problems I could not solve, at least not
> easily.
>
> However, tuxtype does not actually use rsvg for much of anything, and
> the configure script has an option to not use it.  So I think you
> should be able to do:
>
> ./configure  --without-librsvg --without-sdlpango
>
> Hope that helps, and I would be extremely interested to hear about
> your experience working on this.
>
> David Bruce