haileys / tangara-companion

Tangara Companion

Developing

Tips

• If you're adding new svg assets or anything styled with particular colours, check that it looks good in both light and dark modes! Use the environment variables ADW_DEBUG_COLOR_SCHEME=prefer-dark and ADW_DEBUG_COLOR_SCHEME=prefer-light.

Building

Cross compiling for Windows

This is a bit of a process to setup initially, but the DX is great once all the pieces are in place. Here's how I do it:

0. Install xwin:

   $ cargo install xwin

1. Download the Windows SDKs and put them in ~/cross/windows-kits/xwin. I put them here so I can use them from other projects.

   $ mkdir -p ~/cross/windows-kits
   $ cd ~/cross/windows-kits
   ~/cross/windows-kits $ xwin --accept-license splat --output xwin

2. Build a copy of the gtk4 libs on a Windows machine using the tangara-companion branch of my fork of gvsbuild. There are some circular dependencies between some of the projects in the gtk4 stack, so you'll need to run the build a few times in a specific order. Here's what I find works:

   > poetry run gvsbuild build --build-dir gtk-build gtk4
   > poetry run gvsbuild build --build-dir gtk-build librsvg
   > poetry run gvsbuild build --build-dir gtk-build --clean-built cairo gtk4
   > poetry run gvsbuild build --build-dir gtk-build libadwaita

3. Install InnoSetup in your Wine environment. This will install to C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 6, which is currently hardcoded by the build script. We'll automate this at some point.

4. You're ready to run the build!

   $ script/build-windows