Re: installing Gtk-Perl on cygwin (very long, but it actually works now;)

["dominix" <dominix despammed com>]

muppet wrote:
> please note that gtk-perl is obsolete and barely maintained.
>
> gtk2-perl, on the other hand, is under active development, has native
> win32 support, and is reported to work with cygwin.
>
> if you are planning to write new code, please do not use gtk-perl, use
> gtk2-perl.
>
> if you are trying to use an old gtk-perl app, it may be easier to port
> the app to gtk2-perl than to get gtk-perl working reliably on win32.
> for apps that depend too heavily on Gtk::CList, Gtk::CTree, or
> Gtk::Text to port easily, i wrote Gtk2::Deprecated some time back, but
> i make no claim that it works well and have not attempted to compile
> it on win32.
>
>
> native win32 binaries for gtk2-perl
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wayne.keenan/gtk/
>
> the gtk2-perl homepage
> http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/
>
> screenshots of gtk2-perl in action on win2k
> http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/misc/win32-screenshots/
>
> Gtk2::Deprecated provides support for deprecated widgets not included
> in gtk2-perl, to ease the porting process.  0.02 is a new version
> which works with ExtUtils::PkgConfig instead of Glib::PkgConfig.  not
> tested on win32, not recommended for production use.
> http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/Gtk2-Deprecated-
> 0.02.tar.gz

regarding cygwin you should mention http://cygnome2.sourceforge.net/  which
contain needed package for Gtk2-perl to compile. And you need to make
fontconfig runing with a good configuration and you require freetype as
well.

NB: I got it installed and running with all test ok :-))
it require some adjust for linking (appened in Makefile
PERL_ARCHIVE = $(PERL_INC)/libperl.dll.a
$INSTALLSITEARCH/auto/Glib/libGlib.dll.a
)
dunno if it right but that works.

thanks to all for your help.

-- 
dominix