Re: Is GTK+ a cross-platform toolkit ? (fwd)

[Fan Chun-wei <fanc999 yahoo com tw>]

Hi Tarnyko,

I'm quite glad to hear about the broadway progress on Windows, as that 
had been brought up on this list some time ago.  Is there any chance 
whether you could post a bug report on your changes (or a link to them) 
to the GDK/broadway sources so that they will build and run on 
Windows-it could be something of significant interest here.  For my 
part, for example, would be to try to build that with Visual Studio and 
see how it goes with that.

I have to agree what other people say about installers for the GTK+ 
stack though, so I would agree a packaged .zip file would be a more 
ideal choice in terms of distribution-it is a frequent issue that's 
brought up from time to time.  The main issue is, having multiple GTK+ 
versions on a system (with one installation that is in the system's 
PATH) can be a source of pain as applications might not find the GTK+ 
(and related) DLLs that it needs, or it may find older versions of the 
DLLs, to name some examples.  And then, if people are planning to use 
the MinGW-compiled binaries of GTK+ with applications they write with 
Visual Studio, they also have to be aware of subtle issues caused by 
using different versions of the Microsoft CRTs (i.e. msvcrt.dll vs 
msvcr90.dll, for example).

Just some of my take on this issue, but your willingness to contribute 
is something that's great to hear, at least on my part. :)

With blessings, and thank you!