Re: new win32 port of GTK

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

Thanks for your support. It means alot to me. 
Others have written to me personally expressing interest and showing
support of my effort.

I would like to ask again, for the last time : 
Dear GTK admins, can you please provide a link from your page to my
effort? Can you point any developers who use debian and mingw32 for
cross compilation to my page? Would you even be willing to host the
packages created? 

Maybe we can even translate this into rpms as well? I dont know enough
about it, but it should be possible to create a spec file that uses the
cross compiler to build as well?

I have requested a APT repository on Debian for these packages,
then we can store them in a central place. 

As to patches, all patches will be posted to the right people.

As to separate distributions, each group has their own version of  gtk
that they use, redhat, debian, kde. It is completly fair to set up a
new distribution that has a different concept.

--- Jean-Daniel Pauget <jd disjunkt com> wrote:
> 
>     My opinion about this new compilation environment for gtkwin is
> that
>     I'm really willing to be able to cross compile gtk apps the same
> way I
>     allready do for SDL apps...
>     I few month ago I had to tune a little bit the script referenced
> at
>     http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/README.txt
>     but basically it did everything I was needing : providing quickly
>     a stable reliable and free (money and speech) compiling
> environment.

Yes, I have started to use that to begin with, and it is good.
the debian dpkg version of mingw32 is easier to install for me

>     I must say I tried to cross compile gtk apps but never could
> achieve a
>     decent result.

well, i am still struggling to get gtk itself compiled.

> 
>     really if some apt-xxx stuff can provide a neat cross compiling
> for
>     gtk, it'd be the best.

it is really handy and easy to use, once set up.

> 
>     however I agree that having numerous different sets of dll for
> gtk and
>     surrounding libs should be avoided...

yes, care has to be taken, and as I said, first we are building
statically :)

mike


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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