Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm-2.4.2 on win32

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin swing be>]

At 09:16 AM 6/9/2004, Timothy M. Shead wrote:
> We are in the process of moving the K-3D 3D modeling and animation system 
> (www.k-3d.org) from a gtk1 UI to gtkmm 2.4.  Everything has been working 
> great on GNU/Linux, and now I'm trying to get a Win32 build going under Cygwin.
>
> I've installed gtk-2.0 using the recommended gladewin32 installer, then 
> installed gtkmm 2.4 using Cedric's installer.  I specified 
> c:/cygwin/usr/local as the install directory for both installers.

You should not use the cygwin posix layer with my port. The GTK+ runtime I 
use is a native one (http://www.gimp.org/win32 for details). You must 
either use mingw (http://www.mingw.org) to compile k-3d against gtkmm-2.4 
on win32 or pass the '-mno-cygwin' flag to cygwin-g++, although you might 
stumble across conflicts between the version of gcc I use (mingw32-gcc 
3.2.3) and the one provided with cygwin (3.3.x). I strongly recommend the 
mingw approach.

See http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ape.html for 
instructions (that should be updated for gtkmm-2.4 by the way !).



> I then verified that I was able to build and run several gtkmm samples 
> using "traditional" command lines, e.g.
>
> $ gcc -o helloworld *.cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtkmm-2.4` -lstdc++
>
> ... gotta love it!  Building K-3D however, I'm seeing several link errors, 
> at the end of this post.  What's interesting is that every error 
> corresponds to a place where I had to fall-back on some gtk / gdk 
> functionality in the code (we're using gtkglext, as gtkglextmm has not 
> caught-up with gtkmm 2.4).  As a simple example, the following line in the 
> code:

Make sure you have the native-win32 gtkglext packages, not the cygwin ones !

Cedric