Jan 21

Giver on windows

ankitj @ 2:18 pm

This is a temporary page for the windows port of Giver. I’ve submitted the patches to the mailing list for review/commit. Till then please try out the binaries provided here on windows.

Requirements:
1. .NET 2.0 runtime is required for this
2. Gtk-sharp
3. Bonjour from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/windows/bonjourforwindows.html

Download and unzip this, and just run Giver.exe

You can either email me (radical at gmail) your feedback on this or post it on the mailing list

14 Responses to “Giver on windows”

  1. Pro Information Center » Blog Archive » Sandy Armstrong: Tomboy 0.13.3, Tomboy 0.12.2, Tasque 0.1.8, and Giver! says:
    January 28th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    [...] Jain has started reviving Giver development. For one thing, he has Windows builds available for download (an obviously useful feature for a file sharing [...]

  2. Joe says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 4:52 am

    Is it working fully between windows and linux then? Thank you very much for having gone through the trouble of porting this.~

  3. ankitj says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    Joe, Yeah, it is working fine b/w windows and linux.

  4. Matt Philmon says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 10:04 am

    It crashes for me immediately on Vista. I didn’t explicity install Bonjour but I understand that to be installed as part of iTunes (and did see a version installed). .NET Framework is up to date and I installed the gtk-sharp MSI specified.

  5. Michael says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 2:47 am

    Sorry, this program is not to start.
    Under winxp sp2 the *.exe crashes always.

  6. Joe says:
    March 13th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    I cant get it to give a whole folder from windows to linux :S
    is it me or is this a *BIG* bug???

  7. varomix says:
    March 14th, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Hi

    it can’t start on me, on win XP, I downloaded the one from here http://home.aubg.bg/students/ysg080/giver/

    and it opens but then it crashes

    this will be very helpfull for us at work, have a linux/mac/windows mixed network

    thank you

  8. ankitj says:
    March 19th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

    For crashes on windows, could you please give details of the crash, stacktrace if you are getting that, and/or could you please see if you can find a file named .giver.log in the “Documents And Settings\” folder and paste its contents here?

  9. ankitj says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 3:33 am

    Err, i meant, look for .giver.log in your “My Documents” folder.

  10. Doc Gonzo says:
    March 20th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    Hey Folks,
    you can do the same with pidgin.
    Just make an Bonjour Account with Pidgin and download the apple bonjour software.
    Works the same and you dont have to install another programm.
    Because everyone uses Pidgin, right ;)

  11. Juan Chotacorta says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm

    No, not everybody uses pidgin. I do, but not everybody does.

  12. umt says:
    September 11th, 2009 at 1:41 am

    Under Vista the error log says the following:
    10.09.2009 22:03:02 [Debug]: PhotoService static constructor called
    10.09.2009 22:03:02 [Debug]: New GiverService was created
    10.09.2009 22:03:02 [Debug]: Starting listener on port 49781
    10.09.2009 22:03:02 [Debug]: Error starting a http listener on port 49781 : Zugriff verweigert
    10.09.2009 22:03:02 [Debug]: Error starting GiverService: Unable to bind to any port. See .giver.log file in your home directory for details.

    Just a hint for you: “Zugriff verweigert” means “Access denied”.
    With the firewall off i get the same error.

    Would be great if you could fix this.
    I use giver for quite a long time now sharing files on my linux machines. Would be great if the windows system could participate as well …

    Cheers

  13. Shawn says:
    September 15th, 2009 at 7:14 am

    That’s awesome, keep up the good work!!!

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