Re: [Vala] Cross compiling vala gtk to win32

[Martin Leibner <mleibner tincorad com>]

Thank you very much!
I will be studying Beebop this weekend ;-)

Best regards,
Martin

2011/4/29 Andrea Bolognani <eof kiyuko org>

> 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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