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authorRalf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>2007-03-04 22:27:33 +0000
committerRalf Habacker <ralf.habacker@freenet.de>2007-03-04 22:27:33 +0000
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* dbus-win.patch, README.win: added available win32
patches from windbus project (http://sf.net/projects/windbus)
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+----------------------------------------
+Windows port of the freedesktop.org D-Bus
+----------------------------------------
+
+Requirements
+------------
+- cmake version >= 2.4.4 see http://www.cmake.org
+- installed libxml2 or libexpat
+
+Build
+-----
+
+unix
+1. install cmake and libxml or libexpat
+2. get dbus sources
+3. mkdir dbus-build
+4. cd dbus-build
+5. cmake <dbus-src-root>/cmake or cmake -DDBUS_USE_EXPAT=on <dbus-src-root>/cmake in case libexpat should de used
+5. make
+6. make install
+
+win32
+1. Install your prefered compiler
+ - Mingw from www.mingw.org
+ - Visual C++ 2005 Express/Studio
+2. Install win32libs packages from
+ http://www.abi-neuhaus.de/chris/win32libs/
+ into a subdir win32libs in your program installation eg c:\Programme\win32libs (german)
+ or "c:\Program Files\win32libs" (english)
+3. download and install the most recent CMake version from http://www.cmake.org/files/
+4. apply dbus-win.patch: 'patch -p0 -i dbus-win.patch'
+5. open command shell and run in the created build folder which resides side by side
+ to the D-Bus sources:
+ - for mingw:
+ cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" <options> ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
+ - for Visual C++
+ cmake ..\<dbus-source-root>\cmake
+7. build
+
+
+Tests
+-----
+(when build with the Visual C++ IDE the *.exe files are
+in the bin/Debug and bin/Release folder)
+
+ - dbus library check
+ bin\dbus-test.exe .\test\data
+
+ - bus daemon check
+ bin\bus-test.exe .\test\data
+
+ - check available names
+ bin\test_names.exe
+
+ - check if dbus-daemon is accessable
+ bin\dbus-send.exe --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / org.freedesktop.DBus.ListNames method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.4 array [ string "org.freedesktop.DBus"string ":1.4"]
+
+ - start dbus-daemon
+ * set DBUS_VERBOSE=0 (=1 for getting debug infos)
+ * start bin\dbus-daemon --session
+ * bin\dbus-send.exe --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --print-reply --type=method_call / org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName string:org.freedesktop.DBus.TestSuiteEchoService uint32:455 method return sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.8 uint32 2
+
+
+
+Some build options
+-------------
+ key description default value
+ --- ----------- -------------
+DBUS_USE_EXPAT "Use expat (== ON) or libxml2 (==OFF) OFF
+DBUS_DISABLE_ASSERTS "Disable assertion checking" OFF
+DBUS_BUILD_TESTS "enable unit test code" ON
+DBUS_ENABLE_ANSI "enable -ansi -pedantic gcc flags" OFF
+DBUS_ENABLE_GCOV "compile with coverage profiling
+ instrumentation (gcc only)" OFF
+DBUS_ENABLE_VERBOSE_MODE "support verbose debug mode" ON
+DBUS_DISABLE_CHECKS "Disable public API sanity checking" OFF
+DBUS_INSTALL_SYSTEM_LIBS "install required system libraries
+ (mingw: libxml2, libiconv, mingw10)" OFF
+CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "build type (== debug) or (== release) release
+
+
+
+Developers
+----------
+
+Running the tests in Visual Studio:
+
+ To successfully run the tests by the IDE you must add
+ the FULL patch to test\data in your build directory
+ (e.g. c:\dbus\build\test\data)
+ in something like
+ -> Project Settings
+ -> Debugging
+ -> Command line arguments
+
+
+
+FAQ
+---
+
+- How much work remains till DBUS win32 can be merged with the main project?
+
+There are some patches outstanding and the most effort is required in
+discussions with the main dbus team how to implement some parts. One of
+the main dbus team estimated the open work to one fulltime week.
+http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-November/006264.html
+
+I assume they will answer ALL your questions, and they are very
+interested in fully supporting win32.
+
+- How far is WinDBus from being usable for production ?
+dbus comes with a test suite which is used on unix to guarantate
+production quality and this test suite runs mostly. There are some
+test not running and we need help to get them running.
+
+In the pratice I and some other people are using dbus for at least more
+than a half year in conjunction with kde on windows without any problems.
+
+
+- On UNIX D-Bus uses UNIX sockets to communicate (correct me if I'm wrong).
+ What is used on Windows ?
+
+tcp sockets, there are some efforts to get named pipe running, but some
+design problems of the win32 api, we are not able to solve without
+bigger changes to the dbus code base let us stop this effort.
+
+
+- Do you have any clue if dbus-win32 can run in a Windows CE environment?
+
+I was told that windows ce does not have posix function
+open/close/select/... and dbus code uses such function in some area.
+
+
+- Do you know if the C++ binding made by OpenWengo will be easily portable to Windows?
+
+We have already ported the OpenWengo dbus-c++ binding, see in WinDBus svn (http://sf.net/projects/windbus)
+The related test applicationa are running well.
+
+
+TODO
+----
+
+February 2007:
+
+- all changes of dbus-win.patch should become part of the official D-Bus code
+
+- all code currently disabled by DBUS_WIN_FIXME should work
+
+- clean up:
+ * bus/bus-service-win.c
+ * bus/dir-watch.c
+ * dbus/dbus-spawn-win.c
+ * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-win.c
+ * dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
+
+
+see also:
+http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-July/005076.html