[Gambas-devel] Windows stuff

[Brandon Bergren]

I managed to get a dll to provide GDI windowing in Cygwin, finally.

Apparently, the host app DOES have to use the WINDOWS subsystem.

Using argc and argv with that subsystem really sucks, though.

Micro$oft only provides a Unicode version of the routine to make an argv 
from what you are provided by windows, so you basically have to write your 
own command line parser.

Anyway, I'll probabaly end up writing a simple GDI canvas to dump console 
output on, and maybe have a couple debugging dohickeys and stuff.

I also got a cygwin host to load a mingw dll, without any ill effects.  I 
don't think it's guaranteed to be stable, as there's two C runtimes going 
if you do that. (cygwin1 and msvcrt)

But, it seems to work.

As GTK is a complete PITA to get running using the win32 gdk backend while 
the rest of GTK is doing POSIX, that's a relief.

As a side effect, I can bluff my way through GDI now. ;)

Anyway, if everything goes well, I might be able to get the GTK component 
to compile against a MINGW style GTK.

--Brandon