Re: libgnome & Windows

[Alf C Stockton <alf stockton co za>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> > Please explain what and where I get the equivalent to libgnome for windows.
>
> (tongue in cheek:) From Microsoft? See 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp
>
> There are dozens of different native technologies/APIs of various age and 
> elegance on Windows that as a whole are "equivalent" to GNOME... Isn't the 
> whole point of GNOME, if seen from a high enough perspective, to bring 
> Windows style functionality to Unix?
>
> I.e. the "equivalent" to libgnome is all those technologies, 
> Win32/MFC/VisualThisAndThat/COM/OLE/ActiveThisAndThat/etc that native Windows 
> applications use.
>
> But I guess that wasn't really the answer that you were asking for...
You are correct, that is not the answer I was looking for. I want to be able to 
build on both Windows and Linux and not have to alter the code any more, if any, 
than necessary.

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