RE: [gtkmm] gtkmm and vc++6

[Cedric Gustin <cgustin ibelgique com>]

At 07:10 PM 7/18/2002 -0700, John Burris wrote:
> Yes, I have tried.  However, I can't get libsigc++ 1.2 to compile and run
> all tests successfully.  I tried this with both vc++6 and .NET, with no luck
> ;-{ .  I have given up on this because I don't have enough template
> knowledge to create a patch and make this work.

Still the "partial template specialization" problem (not suported by Visual 
C++.Net and earlier versions) !

> I'm now going to try the
> Intel 6.0 compiler.  I suspect this will work fine because the Intel
> compiler supports all of the ANSI c++ template stuff required by libsigc++.
> It will be a few weeks before I can get my hands on the Intel complier.
> I'll let you know how it goes and submit a patch sigcconfig.h.in if it
> works.

I think we should concentrate on a few (2 or 3) commonly used compilers 
instead. Gtkmm compiles fine (even though it's not straightforward "yet") 
with mingw32, which is the compiler used by the main author of gtk+ port on 
win32 Let's find a way to make it compile with Visual C++ 6 and 7 (I'll try 
to find a copy). Murray, maybe it's time to create a new bugzilla topic or 
to reopen the "gtkmm should compile (and run) on Windows" one ?


> As a side note, I have no problem with gtk+ 2.0 on windows.  There have been
> a few quirks, but nothing I couldn't figure out and fix or work around.  I
> even have gnomecanvas working which make be very happy.

That's the reason why Gtk was written in C instead of C++. Cross-platform 
portability is much easier than to handle this C++ compilers mess.

Cedric