Re: [gnome-love] gnome-love Digest, Vol 106, Issue 12

[Adam Dingle <adam medovina org>]

Archana,

In theory, the fundamental GNOME libraries including Glib and GTK are cross-platform. It's possible to build these libraries for Windows, and using these, some GNOME applications can be built for Windows. For example, the gedit web page (https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/) has a link to a Windows binary for gedit, though it's a very old version (2.30).

In practice, though, GNOME as a whole only works well on Linux-based operating systems (including FreeBSD). I think it's safe to say that 95% or more of mainstream GNOME development happens on Linux/FreeBSD. Probably many or most GNOME programs will not build at all on Windows today without substantial effort. So for working on most GNOME projects your life will be far easier if you run a Linux-based distribution such as Arch, Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu.

If there's a particular project you're interested in, we might be able to give more specific feedback.

adam

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Archana Kumari <archanakumari959 gmail com> wrote:

can I work on gnome projects in windows environment.....is it necessary to be a linux user for it On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 5:00 AM, <gnome-love-request gnome org> wrote:

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-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/attachments/20130630/ef064bef/attachment.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:05:27 -0004 From: Adam Dingle <adam medovina org> To: Chamila Adhikarinayake <cka adhi gmail com> Cc: gnome-love gnome org Subject: Re: [gnome-love] Newcomer seeking advice Message-ID: <51d003d8 621e310a 2677 ffff8ac3 mx google com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Chamila, welcome, and thanks for saying hi! Actually relatively few GNOME applications are written in C++. Most core or older applications are in C, which of course will be familiar if you know C++. Some newer applications have been written or rewritten in Vala (e.g. Baobab, gitg). If you're especially interested in C++, you could look at Gnote, which is in C++: https://wiki.gnome.org/Gnote I use Gnote often, and it has plenty of bugs I'd love to see fixed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A%22gnote%22+ adam On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Chamila Adhikarinayake <cka adhi gmail com> wrote:

Hi, I'm a newcomer to gnome and found out this is the best place to start. I like programming in C++. I'm searching for a project to begin (a small thing would be nice to get familiar with the whole thing.). Are there any recommendations. thanks in advance

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