Re: Building and packaging for Windows

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Andrew Smith wrote:

> I am the author of ISO Master ( http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/ 
> ). It's a reasonably simple GTK application. I'd like to make a 
> Windows version. If possible, without porting the GUI to Win32. 
> I managed to compile ISO Master on Windows using cygwin, but I 
> don't see how I could distribute it without a cygwin 
> prerequisite.

Then compile it using mingw rather than cygwin.

> Can someone share ideas about how to compile a GTK application 
> for Windows and package it so it includes GTK and its 
> dependencies?

For one example, see

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/cross-gtk/

Allin Cottrell