RE: help me catch up on GTK gui tools

["Brett Stottlemyer" <stottle qadas com>]

Calum, 

Thanks for the links, you've given me a lot of new stuff to look at.  I had
no idea all of that was available; I was disappointed with the selection at
sunfreeware, which is often out of date.

I'm surprised to hear that some of the software compiles better with
sunstudio.  I thought many of the libraries (like gtk) were built with gcc.
I would expect better performance from sunstudio (as the native compiler),
but more trouble compiling.

BTW, I'm interested in GTK for gui development with gtkglext widgets, not
for GNOME.  I believe solaris opengl support within sunstudio is limited to
SPARC workstations, and any testing I would do would be on x86 systems
(although, once again, the final destination would be SPARC).

Again, thanks for the help.  I'm new to a lot of this, so your pointers are
definitely helpful.

Brett


-----Original Message-----
From: Calum Benson Sun COM [mailto:Calum Benson Sun COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:56 PM
To: Brett Stottlemyer
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: help me catch up on GTK gui tools


On 6 Aug 2006, at 18:18, Peter Firefly Lund wrote:
> (btw. why on Earth do you have to use Solaris at all?  Is it Company
> Policy that Cannot be Changed? ZFS and dtrace are cool but isn't that
> about it?)

Umm... no.  But this is hardly the place for a "My Kernel's Better  
Than Your Kernel" discussion, so let's just all play nice :)

FWIW, to the OP... if you want an easier way to manage your GNOME  
dependencies on Solaris, and don't need support from Sun, you might  
want to investigate the Solaris apt package repository at http:// 
blastwave.org.

If you prefer to build from source, some of the tools that we use to  
build GNOME and various other things for Solaris from RPM spec files  
might be of interest (although they currently work better with the  
SunStudio compiler than with gcc):

http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ 
community/desktop/communities/jds/building

Some community-contributed spec files, including gtkmm:
http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/

Cheeri,
Calum.

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