Hacking:

Sheesh. I thought that compiling the latest and greatest GTK+ on Windows was a solved problem, accomplishable with little pain and suffering.

Apparantly, this is simple for Hans Breuer and tml, but they are using VC++. I was hoping to do this with MinGW, but either it's not quite baked or I'm still doing something brain-dead with my setup, even after reading all the README's I can find.

So here's what I've got so far:

• Compiling glib-1.3.6 with MinGW didn't work.
• Cross-compiling glib-1.3.6 under Cygwin didn't work.
• Compiling glib-1.3.6 as a native Cygwin module didn't work
• Getting latest from CVS and trying to build under Cygwin doesn't work, because autogen.sh wants a newer automake and because Cygwin doesn't ship with libtool.
• At least the latest automake build cleanly for Cygwin.
• However, libtool-1.4 fails all build checks, and some searching on the Cygwin lists yields the observation that libtool is Just Broken(tm) right now on Windows. But maybe in a couple of months it will be OK. :(
• Some days, it just doesn't pay to not go to bed. :)

Oh well. Time to go back to the plain MinGW compile and try again ...

Life:

My Dances With Wolves name should be "Needs More Sleep."

Thoughts:

Well, at least the House passed the good cloning bill, even though my congrescritter seems to have not been persuaded by my letter. :^/