Re: [Vala] Cross compiling vala gtk to win32

[august <august alien mur at>]

fantastico.  This is really useful.  Thanks for taking the time and
effort.


> I spend some time this morning to write down some notes and upload some blobs and examples to build gtk 
> apps for windows and osx.
>
> Have fun
>
> http://radare.org/cgi-bin/wk/GTK
>
> On 30/04/2011, at 0:44, august <august alien mur at> wrote:
>
> > I would be very interested in both the mingw cross compile instructions
> > and the OSx dmg creation instructions.
> >
> > (Would be great to work out the GTK3 kinks too.)
> >
> > best -august.
> >
> >
> > > I have crosscompiled big vala+gtk (gtkaml) apps with mingw from linux to windows.
> > >
> > > The setup is simple, but requires some tricks. 
> > >
> > > I used to install the last gtk blobs for windows and then by setting pkgconfig, cflags and ldflags yo 
> > > point to the directory containing the liba and include files the projects compiles just fine.
> > >
> > > I have a zip somewhere with all this environment prepared (w32 blobs and a test program in valagtl that 
> > > crosscompiles with 'make') .. I will have to find it because im replying thia from my phone. 
> > >
> > > But if someone finds it interesting i can provide instructions and the zip for this.
> > >
> > > I have also recently packaged a vala+gtkon app for osx with gtk and quartz (no x11). And stored in a 
> > > standalone .app in a .dmg image.. 
> > >
> > > If someone finds this interesting i can write some instructions to do it.
> > >
> > > I still have to play with the themes (to be emedded in the .app) and i would love to switch to gtk3. If 
> > > someone have any experience with it let me know :)
> > >
> > > --pancake
> > >
> > > On 29/04/2011, at 17:34, Martin Leibner <mleibner tincorad com> 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 looked at valaide source but it uses waf and I'm not really used to it.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Greetings,
> > > > Martín