Re: Q: Can a gtk+ app run on Windows without an X Server?

[Michael Hill <mjh rdasys com>]

You may also want to look into using the MINGW32 environment.  I have found it much easier to deal with than cygwin.  I believe you can obtain it from bloodsheds website http://www.bloodshed.net


Cheers,
Michael H.

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:20, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>     On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:46:51PM +0000, John Miskinis wrote:
> > 
> > Please forget about my earlier post regarding building glib.
> > 
> > I was able to get an earlier version of GTK+ up on a WIN98SE
> > box, under cygwin.  I was under the impression, perhaps wrongly,
> > that I could use GTK+ to build a GUI, on both linux and Windows,
> > and that I could simply provide some DLLs on windows with my app
> > to allow it to run on windows.
> > 
> > When I finally built the "Hello World" app under cygwin, and
> > ran it, it is looking to open an X Display.  Is an X Server
> > required?  I was hoping it was not...
> > 
>
> There's a native windows port. You could also build it with the cygwin
> unix emulation stuff, and then you have unix/X11 gtk running on
> windows. But there is a win32-native GTK.
>
> http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/ has more. It talks about 1.3.0 on
> the front but the download page has 2.0 downloads.
>
> Havoc
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