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Improve the NMake Makefiles that is used to re-generate demos.h(.win32) by re-generating the gtk3-demo Visual Studio projects, so that one would no longer need to do that manually. Update the build instructions accordingly.
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Preameble
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This file attempts to give further info about how to enable features
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that are not available in the Visual Studio project files shipped
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with the source release archive, i.e. beyond building GTK with the GDK
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Win32 backend, with or without the Broadway GDK backend.
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The following also apply to Visual Studio builds done with Meson in terms
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of getting the required dependencies for the optional features.
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Notes on enabling EGL (ANGLE/D3D support) for Windows/Visual Studio builds
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==========================================================================
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There is now support in the GL context creation code for Windows in GDK for
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creating and using EGL (OpenGL ES 3) contexts, which can be used instead of
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the existing OpenGL (Desktop) support, especially when the graphics drivers
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do not support OpenGL adequately.
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This support is not enabled by default in the project files. In order to do
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so, please do the following:
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-Obtain or compile a build of recent version of ANGLE. The one that comes
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with QT 5.10.x is sufficiently recent, but not the one that comes with QT-
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5.6.x. Note that Visual Studio 2013 or later is required for building
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ANGLE from QT-5.10.x, but the Visual Studio 2013-built ANGLE DLLs does
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work without problems with GTK+ built with Visual Studio 2008~2013.
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You may need to obtain D3Dcompiler_[47|43|42].dll if it does not come
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with the system (which is part of the DirectX runtimes). Visual Studio
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2015 or later can use ANGLE from QT 5.11.x or later, or from Google's
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GIT repos, which may require later version of Visual Studio to build.
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Its headers and .lib needs to be set to be found by the compiler and
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linker respectively before building libepoxy.
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-Build libepoxy with EGL support, which has to be enabled explicitly on
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Windows builds. Pass in -Degl=yes when building libepoxy using Meson.
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Build and install, making sure the headers and .lib can be located by the
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compiler and linker respectively.
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-Open the vsX/gtk+.sln, and open the project properties in the "gdk3-win32"
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project. Under "C/C++", add GDK_WIN32_ENABLE_EGL in the "Preprocessor
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Definitions" to the existing definitions in there for the configuration
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that is being built. Then build the solution.
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-To force the use of the EGL code, set the envvar GDK_GL=(...,)gles ,
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where (...,) are the other GDK_GL options desired.
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Enabling the font tweaking features and the font features demo
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The font tweaking features in the GTK DLL is enabled automatically if
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the Pango 1.44.0 and HarfBuzz 2.2.0 (or later) headers and libraries
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(and hence DLLs) are found during compile time. Check in
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gtkfontchooserwidget.c that the `#pragma comment(lib, "harfbuzz")` line
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to ensure that you have your HarfBuzz .lib file named as such, which
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is the default .lib name for HarfBuzz builds.
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Alternatively, they can be manually enabled by making sure that
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`HAVE_HARFBUZZ` and `HAVE_PANGOFT2` are defined in config.h.win32,
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meaning that PangoFT2 must be present, which depends on HarfBuzz,
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FontConfig and FreeType. You will then need to add to the `gtk3`
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projects the .lib's of PangoFT2, HarfBuzz and FreeType in the
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"Additional Libraries" entry under the linker settings.
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Please note that the font features demo is not built into gtk3-demo
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by default. To do that, run in a Visual Studio command prompt, go to
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$(srcroot)\win32, and run
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"nmake /f generate-msvc.mak regenerate-demos-h-win32 FONT_FEATURES_DEMO=1".
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To undo that, run that command without "FONT_FEATURES_DEMO=1". Python must
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be present in your PATH or passed in via PYTHON=<path_to_python_interpreter>.
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If you are building the font features demo with the older PangoFT2-style
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(i.e. pre-Pango-1.44.x and pre-HarfBuzz-2.2.0) support, pass in
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"FONT_FEATURES_USE_PANGOFT2=1" in addition to "FONT_FEATURES_DEMO=1" in the
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NMake command line. The gtk3-demo project files will also be updated with the
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appropriate dependent libraries linked in-please check that the project settings
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contain the correct .lib file names for your system, as they assume the most
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common names are used there.
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