Re: Building of win32 applications

[Damon Register <damon w register lmco com>]

Petr Hracek wrote:
> I am trying to build up some gtkmm applications under Windows environtment
> with DevC and MinGW interface and it works successfully.
I am doing almost the same, though I am not using DevC.

> Unfortunatelly on my windows machine I have installed
> Cygwin right now because of my work needs them.
>
> When I install DevC and MinGW then I can not run Cygwin anymore. Did you
> met with this?
That is strange.  My work machine has both MinGW and Cygwin and I have not
had any trouble with this.

> I have only one question on you:
> What do you prefer? Building under MinGW and DevC or building under Cygwin?
> What are you experiences?
> E.g. Gnucash, Scribus, Inkscape or other programs does not use Cygwin. Do
> you know how they are ported? What are using - another way?
That's five questions. Which one do you want :-) ?
I suppose that would depend on what you want.  are these graphical or
console applications?  With MinGW you get native Windows programs.  With
a graphical program on Cygwin you would be using X11.  Since my programs
are graphical and I like the idea of having a native Windows program, I
am using MinGW with gtkmm and glade to develop the GUIs.

Damon Register