Details on how to build on Windows? Missing dependencies...

[GuangSunshine]

Hi all, I cloned the Pinta code and tried to build it. The readme.md simply says "opening Pinta.sln in Visual Studio. Ensure that .NET 8 is installed", but I got many errors on missing DLLs when building the Pinta project:

error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libbz2-1.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libbrotlicommon.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libcairo-gobject-2.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libcairo-script-interpreter-2.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libcrypto-3-x64.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libappstream-5.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libbrotlidec.dll" because it was not found.
...
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libzstd.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\zlib1.dll" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gdbus.exe" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.exe" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gspawn-win64-helper.exe" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gspawn-win64-helper-console.exe" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gtk4-update-icon-cache.exe" because it was not found.
error MSB3030: Could not copy the file "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\gtk4-query-settings.exe" because it was not found.

I have MINGW64 installed, I have "C:\msys64\mingw64\bin" directory but it is empty. Looks like I am missing a lot of dependencies, can someone help to list out what libraries/SDKs need to be downloaded and installed? Thanks! And I wish the readme.md would include more details!

[cameronwhite]

Sorry about that! I'll get the readme updated shortly
Pinta's master branch has been ported to GTK4, but I only got it working on Windows a week or two ago and hadn't updated the readme yet

I think all you should need is to install the libadwaita package (mingw-w64-x86_64-libadwaita)
The CI build has the official steps used to generate the installer:

Pinta/.github/workflows/build.yml

Line 127 in f249806

install: mingw-w64-x86_64-libadwaita

Let me know if that gets it working for you

[GuangSunshine]

Thanks for the quick response on Christmas Eve! I installed the libadwaita package and Pinta builds and runs! 💯

Thank you! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

PS: To install the libadwaita package, I started my MSYS2 MINGW64 Shell and typed pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-libadwaita , then I can build in VS!

[cameronwhite]

Great, thanks for confirming, and happy holidays!

[kyriacosmichael]

In my case i also needed to run this
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-nghttp3
as C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\libnghttp3-9.dll was missing

[cameronwhite]

That appeared pretty recently as a new dependency of cairo (02c1de9), so perhaps your existing mingw packages were out of date?