Re: Compilation under Windows

[Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood ncsu edu>]

Here is a document that may be of interest not only to you but also to 
the wider gtkmm community:

   http://vpython.org/gtkmm_on_windows.html

These notes give a lot of details gleaned from diverse sources on what 
is required to create a gtkmm build environment on Windows. Your case 
may be simpler than mine, as it involves OpenGL and Boost, but many of 
the issues are general ones (the context is VPython, a 3D Python 
programming environment).

The attempt was successful but was incredibly effortful. The great 
complexity of the approach has led to retreating to implementing 
lightweight machinery for creating windows and handling mouse and 
keyboard events on Windows and Mac, while continuing to use the gtkmm 
approach as the natural environment for Linux.

However, it should be mentioned that some of the difficulties described 
in this document are present on Linux as well. For example, at this 
time, gtkglext and gtkglextmm are not standard components of gtk and 
gtkmm, and even on the popular Ubuntu 7.10 there is no package for 
gtkglextmm, nor does a simple configure/make of the source code work, 
for some unknown reason.

I want to express my gratitude for the large amount of work by dedicated 
people to produce and maintain the many open-source tools described in 
the document. What seems to be needed as the next step in these 
developments is better support, documentation, and integration of these 
tools on Windows and Macintosh.

Bruce Sherwood

Petr Hracek wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I've successfuly build some programs under linux Fedora 7 and 8
> and I would like to build these applications under the Windows.
>
> Could you please help me what will be neccessary to donwload?
> I've already downloaded MinGW.
>
> What are other steps?
> How shall I build these application?
>
> regards
> Petr
>
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>