[Gambas-devel] Does gambas-gtk application works in m$ Windowz?

[Brandon Bergren]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Rob wrote:

> On Sunday 17 September 2006 16:00, Enzo Aggazio wrote:
>> Hello world!,
>> i think Gambas is a cool and professional IDE for VB, i also
>> use Monodevelop (they prefer C#...) and i want to know if
>> applications made with Gambas and GTK can run under windowz
>> thanks to GTK lib for this Operating System.
>
> This is covered in the Gambas FAQ, but should be made more
> explicit:
>
> http://gambasdoc.org/help/doc/faq
>
> What it says in the Gambas FAQ is that Gambas may become cross
> platform in the future, but there have been reports of success
> under Cygwin (a Unix extension for Windows.)
>
> What it doesn't say is that one guy managed to get a few
> command-line programs working under Cygwin, but no Gtk or other
> graphical support yet at all, and a native Windows port will be
> a long time coming if it's possible at all.
>
> I think that gb.gtk will eventually work under Cygwin, though, if
> someone with time and the necessary skills takes an interest in
> doing that (since the guy who originally got it working hasn't
> been around for about half a year.)

I ain't dead, I'm just busy :(

With enough elbow grease, most of Gambas does work in Cygwin. The most 
annoying problems are still:

-Trying to run with multiple C runtimes (black magic)
  - Recompiling GTK for cygwin with the win32 backend might work
  - or possibly gtk/cairo
-GTK X11-isms (tray icon?) -- Probabaly not too bad
-Filename translation. C:\ vs /cygdrive/c.

More quick notes:

The GtkPlug/GtkSocket bug appears to be fixed (finally)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58541

Libtool-cache is your FRIEND:
http://libtool-cache.sourceforge.net/

--Brandon

>
> Rob
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