Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/05/20/04:03:57
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> >> > CYGWIN is really a great thing. I want to use GTK natively on
> Windows,
[...]
> Just to add to the thread, I assume that if GTK+ can be built using mingw,
> it should be pretty easy to build it for native cygwin. Have you tried
> just building it with Cygwin's gcc?
>
> cgf
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... Just to answer to the just-added-to-the-thread :)
Yes, I have. And I am still trying.
On the serious hand, now, there are several issues regarding GTK+/cygwin:
1. unlike tcl/tk, there was never a gtk+ port on cygwin
2. like the tcl/tk there are versions more closely to be "portable" than
others
3. like the tcl/tk case, both gtk+ and cygwin are evolving independently, so
any building assumptions in a particular moment are not sync'd.
4. the most despairing thing is the version 2.0 of gtk+: while 1.2.x series
were not ported on cygwin, and they required just glib and gtk+ tarballs,
the 2.0.x series come with 4 tarballs, and have iconv and pkg-config as
dependencies. Ugly!
5. the man who is the most involved in gtk+ porting to win32, tml,
>/dev/null 's any cygwin related question. And he's right.
SLao
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