Re: Building and packaging for Windows

[Dan McMahill <mcmahill mtl mit edu>]

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?
> Any tips you would care to share would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew
Take a look at the win32 subdirectory in the pcb (pcb.sf.net) source 
tree.  Also look at configure.ac for pcb.  It's not really polished, but 
the "build_win32" script in there will build a non-cygwin version of pcb 
and create a windows installer using NSIS.  The script is a wrapper 
around the autoconf build system and makes several assumptions about 
where some of the gtk for windows runtime stuff exists.
Hope this helps.

-Dan