Re: GTK+ and Unix OSes

[Owen Taylor <otaylor gtk org>]

"Daniel Solaz" <dsolaz@sistelcom.com> writes:

> It may well be in the docs, you know I usually ask for what happens to
> be in front of me...
> Could someone list all the OSes on which GTK is known to run?

To my (uncertain) knowledge: [ in no particular order ]

 Linux
 Irix 5.x and 6.x
 HP/UX 9.x and 10.x
 SunOS 4
 Solaris 2.5 and 2.6
 BSD variants
 Digital Unix 4
 OSF/1
 AIX
 cygwin32 (under X)
 OS/2 (under X) (?)
 
And most likely more. It might be nice to work up a more formal
list with exact version numbers, compilers, etc.

> I just realized it would be very nice to try building the 1.0 release on
> the Hurd. Anyone toying with it? The Hurd is *the* GNU OS (or so they
> say), based on the Mach microkernel and a set of servers that offer Unix
> functionality. Someone managed to port XFree86 recently and it would be
> great to have GTK running there as well. It would be the first toolkit
> available, I believe.
> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/software/hurd/hurd.html

If XFree86 is running, porting to the Hurd probably would be easy.
GTK requires very little beyond X11R5, ANSI C and an assortment of
pretty standard Unix syscalls. I think that the Hurd is using glibc2
now, and GTK certainly works on Linux with glibc2.

If XFree86 is running, presumably Xaw is working too, so it wouldn't
exactly be the _first_ toolkit...

Regards,
                                        Owen