Re: Developing for windows.

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart Vandewoestyne pandora be>]

Ian Molton wrote:

> I am a linux developer and have been asked to do a windows version of
> one of my programs. I am using GTK 2 and wondering what my options are.

GTK+ also works on Windows.

> I have an old version of MSVC++, but I'd rather be using open tools if
> possible.

Use GTK+ :-)

> Can someone with experience of writing linux/win versions of software
> give some help?

The only experience i have for this kind of stuff is my little gmms project:

http://azw.dyns.be:9090/gmms/

> what build environment are you using? is it free? what will I need? how
> can I package the software once I have built it?

I used the following tools (text is an extract from my 'install.txt' file)

For Windows:
        Dev-Cpp as Integrated Development Environment
        InnoSetup to create the setup file
        The Gimp to draw the icons in .png format
        png2ico to convert the .png to .ico format
        7zip to put everything in a ZIP file

For Linux:
        emacs, vi and gcc as Integrated Development Environment ;-)
        'make' to build the project

And of course the GTK+ libraries.

Everything mentioned is Open Source and completely free as in speech, 
not beer.

Regards,
Bart

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