Re: how to use GTK+ on Mingw&msys? what i need to begin with GTK+?

[Goran RakiÄ <gox devbase net>]

First of all, GTK+ is cross-platform GUI library. So, when you write  
your program (with some GTK functions calls in it) you can compile it  
for MS Windows, Linux,... With GTK+ runtime installed (shared  
libraries) on the system you can run your application on that system.

To compile your source code you will need compiler that can produce  
executable for target system and GTK+ includes/headers/... usually  
called GTK+ developer pack for target system.
With cross-platform compiling you can run compiler (for example MinGW  
cross-compiler) on one system (Linux, Unix,..) and produce binary for  
some other system (MS Windows in this example). Still, you will need  
to test it if it works, and cross-platform compiling is not something  
that you want to start with.

So, to make your application run on Linux and on Windows you need to  
have two binaries (Linux and Windows ones) and GTK+ runtime for  
Windows installed and GTK+ library installed on Linux. To compile  
your application for target system, on Linux you can use GNU gcc  
compiler and will need to have GTK+ library, builded and installed  
from source or installed from binary package. (usually it has -dev or  
-developer sufix in the name).

If your target system is MS Windows, and you don't want to use cross- 
compiler, you can use MinGW compiler (gcc for Windows) and GTK+  
library from gladewin32 project or from Tor's win32 page. MSYS is  
handy tool that will provide you shell (so you can execute configure  
scripts) and GNU tools like cp, rm, bintools, tar, autoconf, automake  
and others.

I hope that this will help you to get it right.


Bye,
Goran Rakic


On 07.02.2006., at 10.12, L. Misoullee wrote:

> thank you.
> yeh, i am little on english but i can know what you tell me.
> in addition, i live in seoul korea.
>
> as you said the  Mingw is not Unix emlulation but msys is.
> just i would said so . becuase of it looks the Mingw usually do  
> with msys.
> also Gaim on Windows doesn't use any Unix emulation.
> i know it.
>
> however, don't i need gcc compiler in order to compile my GTK+  
> application on Windows ?
> since i have known whether GTK+ for Win32 is just used when runing  
> my GTK+ application on Windows.
> somehow Windows version's GTK+ application, Linux/Unix version's GTK 
> + application, as nodoubt previously my GTK+ app should be compiled  
> whether on Unix system or Linux or Windows..CORRECT?
> i found something about Mingw-relations, at Gaim homepage they  
> suggest which compile the Gaim source for Windows by using Mingw.
> i just understood so.
>
> also it looks MacOS has even less to do in this.
>
> i'm sorry about my bad english.
>
> thank you.