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

[Cesc <cesc santa gmail com>]

Hi, sorry to join in late ...
but if you want an example of application which cross-compiles,
take a look at http://www.minisip.org
Minisip is a SIP softphone.
If you take the source code from the repository (SVN subversion, not
CVS), in the trunk there is a folder named Documentation. In there, we
have a step by step file on how to cross-compile it using mingw32 for
win32 ssytems, from a linux debian.
The truth is that it may not help, as the application is rather
complex (it compiles for many other platforms and so , and the whole
build system is not exactly beautiful), but hey, maybe you can get the
feeling :)

Regards,

Cesc
PS - We use cross compilation because we need the autoconf, automake
and so on ... and i don't feel/know if i can use them from a windows
environment :D And anyway, linux is soooo much cooler for a software
engineer :D

On 2/7/06, L. Misoullee <ivsp msn com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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