Re: Development of Win2K exes on Linux

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andreas Volz wrote:

> Am Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:36:07 +0000 (UTC) schrieb Alf C Stockton:
>
> > Would it not be nice if one could do all development of Windows GTK+
> > applications on Linux, including linking to produce the final
> > executable, even if this meant that one had to do a static link?
>
> you need a cross compiler for win32 installed on linux to do this. In
> Gentoo the package names are xmingw*. Perhaps you find something in your
> distribution or google with these keywords.
>
> Then you need to compile all win32 gtk libs with this cross compiler or
> in win32 and then install them into the correct path in linux....

That step (which could be quite difficult) is not necessary, since 
you can download a complete set of pre-built gtk libs (dlls and 
import libraries) for Windows.

Allin Cottrell