Re: Building and packaging for Windows

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Andrew Smith wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am the author of ISO Master ( http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/ ). It's a 
> reasonably simple GTK application. I'd like to make a Windows version. 
> If possible, without porting the GUI to Win32. I managed to compile ISO 
> Master on Windows using cygwin, but I don't see how I could distribute 
> it without a cygwin prerequisite.
> Can someone share ideas about how to compile a GTK application for 
> Windows and package it so it includes GTK and its dependencies?
I believe you can usually get away with compiling your app with 
"-mno-cygwin" to avoid the cygwin dependency (and the non-Windows-ish 
path structure cygwin uses).  IIRC, most gtk packages are compiled that 
way.  As for the actual packaging, that's a question that's asked here 
often; I'm sure you can find the answer with a search of the archives.
        -brian