No other OS's, sorry. This source code is linux only, it's old by even linux standards. It's open source, anyone is free to take it and fork a version for windows or Mac. But it's best we leave this source as it is.
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FWIW if someone wanted to do it and had the right skills I don't think it would actually take much work for them to "port" gwc to windows.
I'm certainly not that person myself, but I looked into it a while ago out of interest, and IIRC I was able to build and run on Windows by taking my plain gtk version (i.e. no gnome libs - https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc), disabling a bunch of code that is very linux specific but I think was just for undo/redo, and building with the pulseaudio backend (in theory you can use pulseaudio on Windows now, but I don't think I managed to actually get that to work). So - reimplement undo/redo and get pulseaudio working on Windows, and you are away - no need even for a new audio backend for Windows...
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So - reimplement undo/redo and get pulseaudio working on Windows, and you are away - no need even for a new audio backend for Windows...
I presume I was testing under an X server on Windows; there may be other changes needed if you wanted to do away with that.
Note that if you really insist on working in Windows and you have modern hardware that supports hardware virtualisation, you can run linux gwc in virtualbox (or similar) - performance is really good and you can have direct access to the Windows filesystem using the virtualbox guest addons. But of course this option won't cause the masses to start using gwc.
Re Mac, people certainly used to run gwc on OSX - but I don't have a Mac so I can't test building for OSX myself.
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Re Mac, people certainly used to run gwc on OSX - but I don't have a Mac so I can't test building for OSX myself.
I spoke too soon. I have been able to build and run my current code on 64bit OSX Snow Leopard in Virtualbox without too much trouble. I suspect there may be some minor changes required to run it on the most recent OSX versions - if there is anyone who wants to test it, please let me know.
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Re Windows support, I only recently noticed that Microsoft and Ubuntu have developed something called "Windows subsystem for Linux", in an effort to increase the relevance of their operating systems.
This is sort of a cross between Colinux and Wine - they have built a compatibility layer for the Linux kernel, which allows you to install the Ubuntu userspace on Windows. In other words, if you have a 64bit version of Windows 10 you can run unmodified Linux binaries on it.
It is very simple to install and use, except that it does not provide gui and sound support out of the box.
I recommend using this project, which provides a script to automatically install it and setup X and pulseaudio: https://github.com/aseering/wsl_gui_autoinstall
I did encounter a couple of issues with the script due to the way my (corporate) windows profile is set up, so if you do too, have a look at the tickets I have commented on.
Gwc seems to works great with this system, so I would say traditional Windows support is now irrelevant except for old versions of Windows. If you have an old version of Windows I'd suggest using a real operating system instead, or perhaps using something like virtualbox if your machine can do hardware virtualisation.
I'm still intending to do an updated release of gwc ASAP, so I guess at that time I could provide a pulseaudio enabled binary for 64bit Ubuntu...
Last edit: Alister Hood 2017-06-05
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No other OS's, sorry. This source code is linux only, it's old by even linux standards. It's open source, anyone is free to take it and fork a version for windows or Mac. But it's best we leave this source as it is.
thats sad a lot of software could use gnome wave cleaner's tools.
FWIW if someone wanted to do it and had the right skills I don't think it would actually take much work for them to "port" gwc to windows.
I'm certainly not that person myself, but I looked into it a while ago out of interest, and IIRC I was able to build and run on Windows by taking my plain gtk version (i.e. no gnome libs - https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc), disabling a bunch of code that is very linux specific but I think was just for undo/redo, and building with the pulseaudio backend (in theory you can use pulseaudio on Windows now, but I don't think I managed to actually get that to work). So - reimplement undo/redo and get pulseaudio working on Windows, and you are away - no need even for a new audio backend for Windows...
I presume I was testing under an X server on Windows; there may be other changes needed if you wanted to do away with that.
Note that if you really insist on working in Windows and you have modern hardware that supports hardware virtualisation, you can run linux gwc in virtualbox (or similar) - performance is really good and you can have direct access to the Windows filesystem using the virtualbox guest addons. But of course this option won't cause the masses to start using gwc.
Re Mac, people certainly used to run gwc on OSX - but I don't have a Mac so I can't test building for OSX myself.
I spoke too soon. I have been able to build and run my current code on 64bit OSX Snow Leopard in Virtualbox without too much trouble. I suspect there may be some minor changes required to run it on the most recent OSX versions - if there is anyone who wants to test it, please let me know.
Re Windows support, I only recently noticed that Microsoft and Ubuntu have developed something called "Windows subsystem for Linux", in an effort to increase the relevance of their operating systems.
This is sort of a cross between Colinux and Wine - they have built a compatibility layer for the Linux kernel, which allows you to install the Ubuntu userspace on Windows. In other words, if you have a 64bit version of Windows 10 you can run unmodified Linux binaries on it.
It is very simple to install and use, except that it does not provide gui and sound support out of the box.
I recommend using this project, which provides a script to automatically install it and setup X and pulseaudio: https://github.com/aseering/wsl_gui_autoinstall
I did encounter a couple of issues with the script due to the way my (corporate) windows profile is set up, so if you do too, have a look at the tickets I have commented on.
Gwc seems to works great with this system, so I would say traditional Windows support is now irrelevant except for old versions of Windows. If you have an old version of Windows I'd suggest using a real operating system instead, or perhaps using something like virtualbox if your machine can do hardware virtualisation.
I'm still intending to do an updated release of gwc ASAP, so I guess at that time I could provide a pulseaudio enabled binary for 64bit Ubuntu...
Last edit: Alister Hood 2017-06-05
Typo fixed - I had left out "does not"!