Re: Announcement of Visual Studio 2015 projects and solutions for Gtkmm and GTK+

[Yann Leboulanger <asterix lagaule org>]

Le 2015-11-27 09:04, Miroslav Rajcic a écrit :
> I've seen most of the links before in the past.
> Hexchat seemed promising at the time, but their unwillingness to fix
> or change anything to the project that is not related to them
> (including building GtkSourceView) was a big disappointment.
> Some other projects are for GTK+ 3.x only, and that makes them
> unusable to me.
>
> Msys2 project is currently the easiest way to build the GTK stack on
> Windows, but the issue here is the use of mingw compiler. My
> measurements show that my own program compiled with msys2 stack (using
> -O2 optimization level) is up to 50% slower in some tasks compared to
> binary produced by VS2013/VS2015.
>
> In the end, I must say, that as the time passes, I appreciate more and
> more the work that Tor Lillqvist used to put to provide GTK+ binaries
> for Windows. I don't think any other project has matured to step in
> and to the work that he has provided.
>
> On Windows, IMO, the ideal project would have to provide binaries (not
> just source), probably built with VS2015 and support both GTK2.x and
> GTK3.x stack. Additional points would be to build gstreamer,
> GtkSourceView and many other commonly used libraries.

It's available here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/

> Currently, I see many projects related to building GTK for Windows,
> each doing work on their own without central/common project.

It's exactly what GTK developpers want, the same as under linux: each 
distrib build it's own binaries
--
Yann