Re: Porting GDK?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Roy Wood <roy wood filogix com> writes:

> I am investigating the feasibility of porting gdk and then gtk on top of 
> SDL, the cross-platform graphics framebuffer library 
> (http://www.libsdl.org/).  Judging by the code in the fbdev and win32 
> ports, it looks like it's simply a matter of grinding through the 
> re-implementation of all the code they've done for their ports.  No 
> magic, just brute force.
> 
> Anyone have anything to comment on this?  Any suggestions for how to 
> proceed with the least amount of pain?

you might want to have a look at the DirectFB port
(http://www.directfb.org/gtk.xml) Perhaps it is a better starting
point for your porting efforts. But then, why would one want to
port GTK+ to SDL if there's already a port to DirectFB ...?


Salut, Sven