Re: Cross platform development

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

On 03/18/2017 09:16 AM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> MSYS2 ships with the pacman package manager. After you have followed the
> instructions on the website, launch the MSYS2 shell from the MSYS2
> folder and then this command installs everything you need to run gedit
> into a filesystem tree inside your msys2 folder.

But the OP already has an MSYS2 installation that has more than just
GTK3 in it.  He wants to put just the GTK3 dependencies in a tree
somewhere. To do that simply, he could unpack the GTK3 (and glib2)
binary pacman packages if they could be located.

> $ pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git
>   mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
>   mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3
>   mingw-w64-x86_64-gedit
>
> gedit ships this filesystem tree from msys2 but removes some files
> needed only for building. It is somewhat large but a third of gedit’s
> size is due to shipping python.

Where can this gedit package be downloaded and inspected by itself?
Sounds like a good place to start.