Re: WIN32 build of a GTK2 app

["J. Ali Harlow" <ali avrc city ac uk>]

On 2003.02.05 03:26 Graham Swallow wrote:
> I'm trying to compile/link/run a GTK app on WIN32 (it works on Linux).
> I'm using:
>
> 	MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe
> 	MSYS-1.0.8-rc-1.exe
> 	gtk+-dev-2.2.0-20030119.zip
>
> It links, but at run time says (in a popup dialog):
>
> 	Gtk-ERROR Incompatible build
> 	The code using GTK+ thinks GtkBox is of different
> 	size than it actually is on this build of GTK+
> 	On Windows ... without the -fnative-struct
> 	[or -mms-bitfields] switch, or ar using an unsupported
> 	compiler ...
>
> So I go back to using the option and get the compile error:
> 	 
> 	cc1plus.exe: unrecognised option '-fnative-struct'
>
> Can someone please help me out here, what g++/msys works?

MinGW 2.x (gcc 3.x) needs -mms-bitfields, MinGW 1.x (gcc 2.x)
needs -fnative-struct

HTH,

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