Re: Glib on Windows for Windows Stroe apps

[Fan Chun-wei <fanc999 yahoo com tw>]

Hi Arnaud,

This is the correct list to ask questions like the one you mentioned.

In the current state, GLib cannot be used in Windows Store (aka Metro) 
apps, as it uses a number of Win32 API/CRT API calls that aren't allowed 
in the Windows Store apps, notably calls that use ws2_32.lib (Winsock2), 
as many portable libraries that involve the use of networking uses BSD 
sockets for ease of portability AFAIK, which was why Windows used 
Winsock.  The Metro apps, unfortunately, disallows the use of Winsock2 
APIs, and things like GSpawn won't be able to work in its current form 
as you aren't allowed to spawn processes directly from a Metro apps.  
There could be a number of other things that need to be ported, and one 
that might disappoint some is the use of TimeGetTime() (for precision 
timing, which uses winmm.lib), which is disallowed in Metro apps.

IMHO it is my hope that GLib (and possibly GTK+/Clutter) can be 
eventually ported to work with the Metro APIs, but there will be lots of 
work involved.   Perhaps if there are some people out there who can help 
out (and/or if you are willing), that would be excellent.  Note that it 
is possible to build and use GLib with Visual Studio 2012 at the time of 
writing, albeit only with the Desktop apps settings.

With blessings, thank you!