Re: [gtk-list] Re: Windows NT port of GTK+

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Fri, 1 May 1998, Matt Kimball wrote:

> Porting glib was an evening's work.  Porting gdk looks like it will
> require a from-scratch rewrite.  Once that is done, most of gtk can be
> used without changes.  One question though: port to mingw32 or Visual
> C++?  The former is in the spirit of the of the GTK+ community, and
> would let anyone develop without invensting in VC++.  On the other
> hand, VC++ is a much nicer development environment.  (One could get it
> to build under either, but that is a bit more work).

if you are really going to work on that horror port *shrug*, you should
consider using an existing gcc front-end (e.g. djgpp) on windows for
the port.
you'll have a little less portability problems and continue to provide
GTK with a *free* development environment.

> 
> -- 
> Matt Kimball
> mkimball@xmission.com
> 

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