Re: gtkmm mingw cross compile

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

I was delighted to find that it is now very easy to install gtk+ and 
gtkmm on Windows:

"Download the binary installer for the development version of gtk+ and 
install into C:\MinGW. At http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net, you need 
the development version, which includes such things as glib, atk, pango, 
cairo, glade, and fontconfig.

Download the binary installer for the development version of gtkmm and 
install into C:\MinGW. At http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32 
in the gtkmm directory, you need gtkmm-win32-devel-xxxx.exe."

In fact, having chosen C:\MinGW for the installation of gtk+, when I 
went to install gtkmm the first option I was offered was C:\MinGW. This 
ease of installation is a big change from Spring 2006 when a colleague 
struggled mightily to get this working on Windows and never succeeded in 
showing me how to do it successfully.

Also of possible interest is a note I posted here a couple days ago on 
producing an installer for my application, for end users who don't have 
MinGW or gtk installed. And perhaps you would find it interesting to 
look at the CVS files for VPython at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualpython, particularly the file 
MSWINDOWS.txt which attempts to give instructions on how to set up the 
development environment on Windows for this project, from which the 
quotation above was extracted.

Bruce Sherwood

David L wrote:
> I have been cross compiling gtk apps from Linux to
> for win32 for years using mingw, but every time I've
> tried to do the same with gtkmm, I've run into one
> kind of problem or another.
>
> Can somebody help me improve a script that creates
> a Linux -> win32 cross-compiling environment for gtk
> to make it work for gtkmm too?
>
> The first thing I need is a plan of attack.  For example,
> which things should I try to download pre-compiled?
> I've had good luck downloading pre-compiled things
> for gtk from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.8/win32.  They
> are a bit old, but they work.  I haven't found the gtkmm
> equivalent of the stuff in that directory.  Is there one?
>
> I've been able to download and cross-compile ligsigc++
> and get that gtkmm dependency working, but I have
> troubles with glibmm.  I downloaded a version
> consistent with the glib version I'm using, but when I
> try to cross compile it, I get this error:
> object.cc:180: error: definition of static data member
> 'Glib::Object::object_class_' of dllimport'd class
>
> Anyway, if anybody could give me some pointers,
> I'd appreciate it.  If I get it working, I'll document
> what I did and post it.
>
> Thanks,
>           David