Building on Windows

[voltagex]

Let's see how far I get, or how long it is until I get bored fighting with Windows.

So far it seems like these are the steps - I am doing a bit of extra work here to get winget to make my life easier:

• Install winget
• Install Git
• Install Python
• Install MSYS2
• In MSYS2, install mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf and mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2
• Install Rust with the MSVC toolchain (helpfully points us towards the VS2022 build tools as well)
• Install pipx
• pipx install gvsbuild
• gvsbuild gtk4
• Clone the repo
• Set $env:PKG_CONFIG_PATH="C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\pkgconfig\" or similar
• Create .cargo\config with the following contents

[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
rustflags = ["-L", "C:\\gtk-build\\gtk\\x64\\release\\lib" ]

• cargo build

Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6m 08s

• Copy all DLLs from to czkawka\target\debug (I guess we can't statically link GTK?)
• Cry because while czkawka_cli works, the GUI immediately exits. From the procmon trace, it looks like it might be looking for czkawka\target\debug\lib\gdk-pixbuf-2.0\2.10.0\loaders.cache before it closes.

[voltagex]

It's crashing somewhere in set_icon_of_button(&buttons_add_included_directory, CZK_ICON_ADD); in czkawka_gui\src\gui_structs\gui_upper_notebook.rs but I don't get any exception details

pub fn set_icon_of_button<P: IsA<Widget>>(button: &P, data: &'static [u8]) { in help_functions.rs is as close as I get before WinDBG starts really complaining.

I can see the stack now, but I don't know how to get the panic message out?