Win32: this may be useful to some developers

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

So one of the things I've been working on for my own purposes is to create 
a full set of libraries for Win32 in order to be able to run GTK apps. My 
intention is opposite to the typical advice given for GTK: I *want* this to 
be a shared component, with a friendly installer, upgrade path etc etc. It 
can be deployed privately (i.e alongside your app) too if you really need 
that. Most importantly, I wanted this to build out the box with only the 
use of Microsoft tools. Not even GNU make. I call it jUXtapose. I have put 
a first experimental version (it contains no installer and GTK still has 
bugs) up at http://keanjohnston.com/juxtapose. It can build for both x32 
and x64 although so far all my testing has only been on x32, and can build 
either DLL's or static libraries, or both. As distributed right now its set 
up for building debug static libraries. Extract the zip and then simply run 
`jxbuild x32`. All you need is your PATH and environment set up for MSVC or 
a DDK-based compile. I still need to document how to set up a DDK-based 
compile. jUXtapose contains the following components:

zlib 1.2.5
libbz2 1.0.6
iconv 1.14
gexttext-runtime 1.18.1.1
libpng 1.5.4
jpeg 8c
libxml2 2.7.8
libxslt 1.1.26
expat 2.0.1
freetype 2.4.6
fontconfig 2.8.0
pixman 0.22.0
pcre 8.13
libffi 3.0.10
glib 2.30 (jxversions.h is wrong, it says 2.28 still)
cairo 1.10.2
pango 1.29.4
gdk-pixbuf 2.24.0
atk 2.0.1
gtk+ 2.24.6
gtk+ 3.2.0

It includes all the sources as patched by me, along with the diffs.

GTK+ 2.24 works well, and only one of the demo sections fails (its gets a 
fault when using editable cells in a tree view but only when compiling with 
Visual Studio 2010) but GTK+ 3.2.0 barely works. I can list all of the 
failures in the demo that I noticed if it will help but I think they're 
well known at this point.

This environment is pretty quick to compile and may be useful to other 
developers. I was going to make the official jUXtapose release based on 
GTK+ 3.x but I think I am going to have to back off on that. I am very 
happy to try proposed new fixes or work with people in getting 3.2.x and 
beyond stable on Win32 again but I also need to focus on writing my actual 
application and making jUXtapose "production ready".

If you find this useful or find any bugs please let me know I am happy to 
tune things to what people find useful.

Sincerely,
Kean