Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Hi

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Batkhuu,

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Batkhuu Ichinkhorloo
<bat...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi
> Dear David Bruce.
> I'm translating mongolian mn.po and mn.mo of TuxMath. I'm attaching these files.

Great - I have added your translation to tuxmath's git repository.

>Now the TuxMath activity used the new translations mn.po for XO. Good work. But not >working on Windows. So  I’m don’t know, what to greate Win32 Application. How to compiling >from debian C source project to .exe for Win32 Application.

All the Win32 releases have been cross-built on a Debian host with the
mingw compiler tools.  The old cross-build environment was very
laborious to set up, although the build itself was very easy once
everything was set.

We are switching to the mingw-cross-env project
(http://nongnu.org/mingw-cross-env) to make Win32 builds for tuxmath
and tuxtype.  It is almost completely automated, and the most recent
source releases for tuxmath (1.8.0) and tuxtype (1.8.1) have complete
instructions.

The new builds do have some remaining problems, however:
1. Even though the builds succeed with SDL_Pango enabled, the
resultant programs don't actually display any text.  I don't know if
any other project is using SDL_Pango from mingw-cross-env yet.  So,
for now we still use SDL_ttf rather than SDL_Pango.
2. Tuxmath now optionally uses SDL_net, but the crossbuild fails
unless SDL_net is disabled.  This probably only requires a better test
in our configure.ac.
3. If I build tuxmath without either SDL_net or SDL_Pango, I get a
working build, but it freezes most of the time when the high score
name entry is displayed.

For these reasons, we don't yet have a public release of tuxmath-1.8.0
for Windows.  Hopefully we can change that soon.

Regards,

David Bruce