Re: new win32 port of GTK http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com> writes:

> Dear GTK developers
> I would like to introduce myself,
> my name is Mike DuPont, and I have been working on a new port of GTK to
> windows. 

I'm not sure I quite understand.

There can be only a single port of GTK+ to Win32. Anything else
would be ridiculous. Crazy even. Only one set of code can be 
included in the tree. There has to be a single place for people
to send patches. There can't be multiple sets of incompatible
GTK+ DLL's for Windows.

There, of course, can be multiple people building binaries of that
port, though there probably should be a single official set.

What, exactly, do you mean by "port"?

> The reason for this port is the mess with the dlls and the problems
> with recompiling the entire package. While this may not be that
> important to all of you, it is difficult to make broad changes to the
> framework with the current setup.

What sort of "broad changes to the framework" are you considering?

I'm am also concerned about the difficulty of compiling the Win32
port of GTK+ currently, but any fixes (and the biggest one is
simply documentation) absolutely need to be done in conjunction 
with Tor.
 
Regards,
                                        Owen

> We are using Debian GNU/Linux and the mingw32 cross compiler
> to create dpkgs that when used, build cross compiled windows exe.
> this removes all the pain of the setting up the enviroment for the
> users.
>
> you can find the page here: 
> http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
> 
> and the mailling list here 
> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/introspector-mingw32
> 
> I would appreciate if you put a link to our page from the gtk in the
> ports section and if anyone is interested in helping, please join the
> mailling list.