Re: Compile GtK and develop in Windows environment...

[Marcelo Armengot <marcelo armengot uv es>]

Ganesh Kumar escribió:
> Hi every body,,
>
>       I am a linux user .. past 2 years i am  working in Linux.. I have used 
> Gtk for GUI develop .. 
>
>       I want to develop some GUI in Windows too.. I know that there are VB and 
> VC++ available.. but i want to do with GTK only..
>
>        Any one could u tell me how to use our Gtk to develop and 
> compile,execute... 
>
>        What are the requirement have to build on Windows OS...
>
>
>   
Well, in gtk.org you will find any documentation about compiling. In the 
link "other documentation" you will find "Building GTK apps for MS 
Windows on Linux <http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/%7Ecottrell/cross-gtk/>" 
and a very usefull slides called Windows portability for GNOME software 
<http://www.iki.fi/tml/fosdem-2006.pdf> - made by Tor Llilqvist 
(probably the person who more knows about this in the world).

I actually making a little program (and i will probably have to make 
others) to run under Gnu/Linux and Win32 environment.

1) Under Win32 you need to install GTK libraries (provided in the web), 
the dll package libraries to Win32
2) I'm ("cross") building from Linux, and when i have the *.exe I test 
in other machine (i have in my table two machines, one have Debian Sarge 
with 2.6.17.1 kernel) and WinXP in the other one.

Try to follow the first paper I'm telling you above and when anything 
doesnt work ask to the list.


I advise you that this kind of job is a bit complex and any diferences 
between Win32 platform and Unix philosophy can stress you... but is very 
beautyfull, you will learn a lot and at the end you will have a 
multiplatform aplication