[pkg-wine-party] Offer of help

[Stephen Kitt]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:34:25PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> Den 27. juli 2010 23:14, skrev Stephen Kitt:
> >later mshtml?), does the following seem sensible to you?
> >1. Update gcc-mingw32 to 4.5.0 properly.
> 
> So it works with gcc 4.5.0?
> 
> A while ago I created a wine-gecko package built with gcc 4.4.4, but
> while it built fine and didn't crash, I found it had this annoying
> little problem of not actually rendering webpages. (I tried for a
> bit to find a version of wine-gecko that worked, but then I got too
> busy.) Do you mean gcc 4.5.0 would let it work, where gcc 4.4.4
> wouldn't? Or just that the newest wine-gecko git snapshot fixed
> something?

Apparently that is the case. The wine-gecko I've built with gcc 4.5.0
renders web pages correctly; I've tested it with Steam on i386 and
amd64, where everything works perfectly, and with Wine's own iexplore
on i386.

> Unfortunately Debian doesn't seem to have a gcc 4.5.0 packaged. When
> I updated gcc-mingw32, I used the 4.4.4 tarball from the Debian
> package. Making a newer gcc-mingw32 than any native compiler in
> Debian sounds risky.

gcc-4.5 is available in experimental; when I first started working on
wine-gecko it was version 4.5.0, and the tarball included in my
gcc-mingw32 package comes from there. Now it's up to gcc 4.5.1 with
which I haven't tried building wine-gecko yet.

Ideally, as I mentioned in another email, gcc-mingw32 should
build-depend on gcc-4.5-source; that would mean that it would only be
available in experimental for now though...

I hope I didn't jump the gun with my more public email just a few
hours ago to various Wine bugs; I can remove the packages I've made
available if you'd prefer.

Regards,

Stephen