Re[2]: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

["Andrew Robinson" <arobinson18 cox net>]

On 5/3/2016 at 11:34 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com> wrote:
> Another equivalent scons-based way of compiling for windows with gcc is
> shown in my program giv.
>
> See: https://github.com/dov/giv/blob/master/SConstruct
>
> SCons uses the Sconstruct files to do the cross-compilation and also calls
> out to nsis to create a windows installer.
>
> The complete gtk run time is only about 20MB in size (at least for gtk2)
> which with todays hard disk sizes really is negligable, so I agree that
> there is no reason to try to create a common gtk runtime.
>
> I still remember the frustration back in the days when there was a common
> run environment and installing glade would make inkscape or gimp fail, or
> vice verse. Individual run time environments is really the way to go!
>
> For a peak into the bad old days, see e.g. the following thread:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.general/16828

Been there, done that. The latest version of GTK+ that GNOME has is 2.24, i.e.
-- there are no 3.x binaries.