Re: Gtk3 bindings on Windows // HTML5 backend

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

GTK 3.x has bundles available for both win32 and win64 linked from the main website, and there's even a continuous integration bundle that allows testing the tip of the master branch. there are some bugs, still, so QA is welcome.

the main stumbling block is, though, GObject-introspection. cross-compilation of GI is still a sticky issue, as the process of generating the XML description of the API requires compiling and running an helper process (to extract the properties and signals of the various classes). this makes cross-compilation on different architectures impossible.

various people are looking into compilation of the G* stack on Windows, both using cross-compilation and native one, including building with Visual Studio. my suggestion is to ask in #gtk+ on irc.gnome.org for the current state of affairs. also, the archives of the gtk-devel-list mailing list should have some detail.

ciao,

 Emmanuele.

On Sunday, December 22, 2013, Daniel Kasak wrote:

Hey all. Today I had some spare time, and updated my Gtk3 bindings. I then returned to some of my Gtk2 ==> Gtk3 porting projects ( it's been a long road ), and guess what ... it WORKS! Whoever fixed my crashing issues in treeviews ... THANKYOU :)

I'm now at a point where I can completely move to Gtk3, on Linux. Unfortunately most people who use my software continue to use Windows. I see there are binary installers now for Windows ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk372andgtkmm360forwindows/ ). I guess things won't be hi;

 

quite that easy for the bindings? Or maybe I'm in luck? Has anyone built the Gtk3 bindings on Windows? Where would I start if I were to do it myself? Does the guide for building Gtk2 bindings for Windows still apply?

Lastly, another option that might work is the HTML5 backend. I can set up an application server @ work for all the Windows users. I've actually been looking forward to doing this for a long time now ;) Any known gotchas? I've played with the demos only. I assume there is nothing specific to the bindings that would prevent things from 'just working'?

Thankyou once more for all the work from binding developers. You guys rock.

Dan

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