Re: of the difficulty of running gtk-perl applications on windows

["Adam Kennedy" <adamkennedybackup gmail com>]

Well, maybe not in Strawberry itself... certainly in Chocolate (the
upcoming "richer and heavier" equivalent of strawberry.

I'd certainly like to see some easy automated way to install GTK on
Win32 though... even a PAR dist would probably be ok.

There's already a tool built into Strawberry (called "pip") that would
let Nadim set up a scripted install ("install this PAR, then that
module, then this other PAR, then that specific dist") at some URI to
provide a one-liner install.

We just need the missing piece of an easy GTK install method.

Adam K

2008/4/25 nadim khemir <nadim khemir net>:
>  FYI From reddit:
>
>  Someone:
>  I'd love to run it on Windows at work, in Cygwin. Anyone know how I can get it
>  to run? Anyone tried it yet?
>
>  jplindstrom:
>
>  The gtk+ libs were phenomenally difficult to get installed on Windows.
>  Seriously, with Strawberry Perl I've become accustomed to it being Linux-easy
>  to install pretty much anything off CPAN on Windows, but this one was just...
>
>  In the end I went with camelbox, and then there were loads of deps since it
>  was a clean Perl install.
>
>  As for Asciio, there's a single developer release on CPAN. It's something like
>  alpha atm I would guess.
>
>  If I were you, I would wait a few releases and wait for someone to build you a
>  binary.
>
>  Someone else:
>  I'm a little confused as to why gtk+ support in Windows is so bad. It isn't a
>  bad API, but it is effectively undeployable (in a commercially viable sense)
>  on Windows.
>
>
>
>  At the Oslo hackathon, Adam show interrest in making gtk mainstream in
>  Strawberry Perl if he would get support from the gtk-perl team.
>
>  Cheers, Nadim
>
>  PS: I'd really, really, really appreciate if someone running windows could
>  make an AsciiO exe with PAR.