Hey I have cloned the meld code I am new to open source it is difficult for me to understand code in mingw-common in .gitlab-ci.yml please can you elaborate how and what particular steps should I follow for code development later I will make a PR containing proper instructions for windows user
The overall schema of developing meld on windows I used 1-2 years ago was following:
- Install msys2 from https://www.msys2.org/ (including update steps mentioned here).
- Install git there, clone meld’s repository
- make a decision - which version 32-bit or 64-bit - ypu would be debugging. As far as I know current official releases are 32-bit, however I hope that mingw64-dist build artifacts (like at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/jobs/1571652 ) are working fine.
- if you select 32-bit - start MINGW32 shelll via mingw launcher, and use most packages starting with
mingw-w64-i686
- if you select 64-bit - start MINGW64 shelll via mingw launcher, and use most packages starting with
mingw-w64-x86_64
- if you select 32-bit - start MINGW32 shelll via mingw launcher, and use most packages starting with
- In the opened shell - install meld dependencies. For example for 32 bit this would be
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-python3-cx_Freeze mingw-w64-i686-python3-gobject mingw-w64-i686-python3-pytest mingw-w64-i686-python3-setuptools mingw-w64-i686-gtksourceview4 mingw-w64-i686-gsettings-desktop-schemas glib2-devel intltool
- cd to meld checkut and run
python3 bin/meld
to run meld from source. - sometimes the behaviour is a bit different in “from source” run and “freezed run” - like from official binaries. In this case you can produce a .zip and .msi via commands from gitlab-ci:
glib-compile-schemas data
python3 setup_win32.py bdist_dumb --bdist-dir build\bdist.mingw\msibdist_msi
And test freezed meld from .zip
or .msi
. For most cases even you want to test freezed meld build you don’t need MSI (it reinstalls slow due to lots of icon files) - just use zip.
I’m not sure that this guide is complete, but I hope that it may be used as a starting point
hello thank you so much it worked for me can you please elaborate on how can I see changes I make in code at meld I am using bin/meld in mingw
You need some git client to view differences, create local commits and push them to your fork.
The most obvious is meld itself))
Just run bin/meld .
However, some features like managing remotes and branches is not available in meld, so you need some git-specific client like git conmmand line, git gui
command (can be installed in msys2 but had some problems several years ago), the official git distribution Git - Downloading Package or some client like TortoiseGit (didn’t used it, but my colleagues with huge svn background find it the easiest).
I have done that but I am doing some changes and I want to see them running like how to do they look on the frontend is my logic correct! I am running bin/meld but it is not updating things on the application. I am trying to make version control tab come like a sidebar as now it is difficult to use and decreases UX
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