Re: New MinGW 4.0 Build

[Silvio Moioli <silvio at moioli dot net>]

Thanks mr. Mohan Embar, it's really appreciated.

Regards,

Silvio
Il giorno mar, 22-03-2005 alle 12:41 -0600, Mohan Embar ha scritto:
> Hi People,
> 
> I've put out a new MinGW 4.0 gcc/gcj build:
> 
> http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc_mingw.htm
> 
> This has integrated SwingWT 0.86.1 and SWT 3116.
> There seem to be a ton of new Java classes and goodies,
> but I've been out of touch and haven't played with
> them.
> 
> Issues:
> 
> - I haven't done DLL builds for this because I
>   don't have a 4.0 port of the "exceptions across
>   DLL boundaries patch" that Danny Smith creates.
> - some networking and channels stuff seems to be
>   busted (cf. NetTest in my examples). I've run
>   this with the same sources and the i686-pc-linux-gnu
>   native compiler and the test runs okay, so it seems
>   to be a Win32 issue. Haven't investigated.
> - the SwingWT textboxes don't work in my samples.
>   This was also the case with my September build
>   and SwingWT 0.84 and doesn't appear to be remedied
>   in SwingWT 0.86.1. Robin wrote me off list concerning
>   this (in 0.84) and said:
> 
> >Hey Mohan - I know about this and have a note to fix it. It's just that 
> >they aren't specifying their default preferred size correctly. If you  
> >manually set preferred size (or use a layout that explicitly sizes 
> >components) they work ok.
> 
> Enjoy.
> 
> -- Mohan
> http://www.thisiscool.com/
> http://www.animalsong.org/
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