Re: [gtk-list] Re: Windows NT port of GTK+

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard appliedtheory com>]

Matt Kimball wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:50:45AM -0400, Jason M. Felice wrote:
> > I'd like to port GTK+ to Windows 95/NT for a few reasons.
> <snip>
> > libgdk may be almost a rewrite.  I'm prepared for this, though hoping it
> > isn't so.
> >
> > How much support have I got?
> 
> You've got my support.  I think this would be a very important move
> for the free software community and I've been wanting to do this same
> thing for some time.  I've mentioned it on this list a few times
> before, with mixed reactions.
> 
> Porting glib was an evening's work.  Porting gdk looks like it will
> require a from-scratch rewrite.  Once that is done, most of gtk can be
> used without changes.  One question though: port to mingw32 or Visual
> C++?  The former is in the spirit of the of the GTK+ community, and
> would let anyone develop without invensting in VC++.  On the other
> hand, VC++ is a much nicer development environment.  (One could get it
> to build under either, but that is a bit more work).
> 

There's a serious problem with not using VC++ and that is the issue of
static libraries.  Static libraries are not standardized under Windows
so that .lib file will not be usable between Borland, VC++ and free
compilers.

--Chris

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