Re: gtk+ and MS Windows

[Antonio Coralles <noche suapie reflex at>]

Paul Cornford wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Below is a quote from an article by Michael Tschater on "Platform
> Independent Software Development"
> [http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/October2004/article350.shtml]
>
> On the subject of "GTK+ (with gtkmm)" he says the following:
>
> "Contrary to the professional appearance of GTK+ for Linux, 'GTK+ for
> Win32' is not impressive. Clicking on the link on the GTK+-mainpage
> immediately results in the warning "The program(s) might crash
> unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely ". (But of course, so do many
> commercial programs on Windows.) The stability seems to depend a lot on
> the machine, display drivers, other software installed or not present
> (status 2004-09-06). The courageous software developer clicks on the
> download page anyway and faces a long list of individual software
> components for downloading. For a comprehensive package, one searches in
> vain. Instead of that an instruction on how to install a number of
> software components can be read and to return to the download page if
> some specific components are missing. This matches the statement of the
> 'GTK+ for Windows' webpage: "You are expected to be quite experienced to
> be able to use GTK+ in your own programs. This isn't Visual Basic."
> After installing the initial components and an unsuccessful attempt to
> start one of the sample applications, most of the developers may have
> lost their desire to get deeper into it. The very unprofessional
> presentation of the 'GTK+ for Win32' components disqualify the software
> 'package' for any professional application."
>
> Can any of the list members confirm this? I was hoping to use Gtkmm to
> develop both Linux and Windows apps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Cornford.


Be sure to use the installer from 
http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ , mingw-3.4.2 and dev-cpp.
Follow the instructions from the gtkmm-book and your app should compile, 
link and work fine [at least this is true for me - and i'm not talking 
about a toy project]. Note that dev-cpp comes in two versions: One 
version includes mingw-3.3.? and the other one doesn't install a 
compiler at all. You should use the second one and configure it for 
mingw-3.4.2.

Regards,
               Antonio

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