[Introspector-mingw32] Fwd: Re: new win32 port of GTK http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm

[James M. D. <mdu...@ya...>]

--- Owen Taylor <ot...@re...> wrote:
> From Owen Taylor Tue Jan  7 06:38:59 2003
> To: James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...>
> CC: gtk...@gn...
> Subject: Re: new win32 port of GTK
> http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
> From: Owen Taylor <ot...@re...>
> Date: Tue,  7 Jan 2003 09:38:59 -0500 (EST)
> 
> 
> James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...> writes:
> 
> > Dear GTK developers
> > I would like to introduce myself,
> > my name is Mike DuPont, and I have been working on a new port of
> GTK to
> > windows. 
> 
> I'm not sure I quite understand.
> 
> There can be only a single port of GTK+ to Win32. Anything else
> would be ridiculous. Crazy even. Only one set of code can be 
> included in the tree. There has to be a single place for people
> to send patches. There can't be multiple sets of incompatible
> GTK+ DLL's for Windows.
> 
> There, of course, can be multiple people building binaries of that
> port, though there probably should be a single official set.
> 
> What, exactly, do you mean by "port"?
> 
> > The reason for this port is the mess with the dlls and the problems
> > with recompiling the entire package. While this may not be that
> > important to all of you, it is difficult to make broad changes to
> the
> > framework with the current setup.
> 
> What sort of "broad changes to the framework" are you considering?
> 
> I'm am also concerned about the difficulty of compiling the Win32
> port of GTK+ currently, but any fixes (and the biggest one is
> simply documentation) absolutely need to be done in conjunction 
> with Tor.
>  
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
> 
> > We are using Debian GNU/Linux and the mingw32 cross compiler
> > to create dpkgs that when used, build cross compiled windows exe.
> > this removes all the pain of the setting up the enviroment for the
> > users.
> >
> > you can find the page here: 
> > http://introspector.sourceforge.net/dia_win32.htm
> > 
> > and the mailling list here 
> > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/introspector-mingw32
> > 
> > I would appreciate if you put a link to our page from the gtk in
> the
> > ports section and if anyone is interested in helping, please join
> the
> > mailling list.
> 


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James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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