On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:34:31PM -0300, Martin Leibner wrote:
Hello, I'm a GNU beginner learning Vala since a couple of months and after playing and enjoying a lot in my Ubuntu desktop installation, now I want to build some small apps to be used by MS Windows users. I came into MingW32, and with some efforts finally was able to build a console-based 'HelloWorld' targeting i586-mingw32msvc But it's getting really difficult to build a gtk-based 'HelloWorld', btw I'm using autotools stack. Someone could help me, maybe with a minimal gtk vala sample application targeting w32 ?
I found myself in the same situation not long ago because of an application I had to write. I collected some notes along the way, with the idea of writing a more comprehensive guide in the near future; then along came GTK+ 3, which is AFAIK not really ready for use on Windows yet, and then the maintainer of the current GTK+ 2 binary release for Windows decided to stop working on that, so I never took the time to improve my notes, seeing it as work on soon–to–be–obsolete technology. I would be glad to share what I have, though, if you are interested. You can take a look at the sources for the application I was referring to[1], which, despite not being exactly a minimal example (you can avoid some of the things I did if you don’t need Cairo and libxml2), could give you some hints about how to cross–compile a win32 application. [1] http://git.roundhousecode.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?p=beebop.git;a=summary -- Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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