Re: For mingw developers ...[Fwd: Win32 GNOME 2 Patches]

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:04:35AM +1000, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> To our mingw developers,
>                  I saw this email on a gnome mailing lista little while ago.
> I was wondering if any of you intrepid hackers could take up the challenge
> to build Gunmeric (a really good Spreadsheet based on Gnome technologies)
> on Windows.
>
> There are also projects that enable GTK2 based programs to look like
> native Windows XP applications.
>
> If we can get Gnumeric compiled on Windows we a huge step closer to having
> an Office Suite on Windows.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Win32 GNOME 2 Patches
> From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux <charles reptile ca>
> Date: Tue, April 15, 2003 3:53 pm
> To: gnome-devel <gnome-devel-list gnome org>
>
>   http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/
>
> It contains a bunch of Patches for making GNOME 2
> run on Windows.

Heck Gnumeric doesn't actually need even the entire gnome stack.
I've been ripping out depends at the libgnome and libbonobo level
for a while now.  The key element missing is a build system for
win32 and someone willing to kick things around and whine when it
won't compile.  There are probably a few lingering remnants, but
nothing insurmountable.