Re: [pkg-wine-party] Offer of help

[Stephen Kitt <lists@sk2.org>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> 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.

I realise I didn't quite answer your question; gcc 4.5.0 works with
wine-gecko 1.0.0 (and a few compilation fixes, see the patches in my
package). Current wine-gecko git builds too, but doesn't work with
Wine 1.2.

Regards,

Stephen