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

["L. Misoullee" <ivsp msn com>]

thank so much Goran Rakic, Tor Lillqvist, David Necas(Yeti) and  other  
helpers.
thank you for saying in detail, with so kindness, it is good help for me.
that is enough for me to know how start with GTK+.
at last i get it right. it is my desire.

> 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.
yes, i will compile my GTK+ program on Windows system and
i will can run my program on a my target system with GTK+ runtime(for 
Windows)
or GTK+ libraries installed(for Linux..).

> 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.

yes, for the compiler i will attempt to have Mingw on Windows or MS 
VisualStduio - but these seems to have some technical risk as Tor 
Lillqvist' sayinng -
and i will get GTK+ includes or library requested.

> 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.
yes, still the cross-compilation seems to be needless me. but i will need 
it in further.


> 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).
yes, it is right. but where can i get GTK+ library-binary package for 
Linux?
it seems to me only source pack is in GTK homepage.
whereever, i am sure to get those without difficult.

> 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.
yes, i have known new information such as gladewin32 and Tor's win32 page.

> I hope that this will help you to get it right.
>
>
> Bye,
> Goran Rakic

thank you very much.