There has been some progress on Comix recently, fixing some slight flaws that prevented the program from starting up correctly on Win32. With that gone, the only issue left is that Comix cannot be directly started on Windows without an .exe file, so I wrote a simple startup script to handle that. It invokes Python and runs the file src\comix.py, so it should be put into the SVN checkout root directory of Comix. C++ source included.
Win32 Comix Starter (obsolete, only works for Python 2.5)
Update: MComix, a fork of Comix, has superior Windows integration and comes with an installer that automatically generates an executable wrapper.
First of all, thanks for this. It’s nice having the best manga reader on Windows. One problem though, how can I get it to read rar files? Converting the archive to zip obviously works, but it would be nice if I didn’t have to do that step.
Does this still work with Python 2.7?
I’ve got 2.7 x86 and 3.1 x64 installed and compiled it after replacing “afxres.h” with “windows.h” in Resources.rc, adding 2.7 to the TCHAR array and defining CRTSECURENOWARNINGS 1 for Visual C++ 2010.
It compiles, but then merely crashes silently.
Alright, I figured one needs some other packages in addition to gtk+ for Windows…
… which are currently only available for Python 2.6 x86, so one may as well take the original version of the start script. But in any case, here’s my build with changes as described above. Works with 2.6 and should work with Python 2.7: http://www.mediafire.com/?x7gdwfb2bj4w0cz
Btw, while direct development of comix may have ceased, there are still some quite interesting 3rd party patches on its sourceforge site.
I forgot to mention about those Python requirements, so thanks for pointing that out.
Someone forked Comix on Sourceforge to Mcomix, but commit activity ceased after a few days. If someone has to do it (the original developer might as well never turn up again), at least don’t half-ass it.