On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 14:27:44 UTC+2, Tad Vizbaras wrote: > > OCR project started 2 years ago. Then there was no usable exp/shiny. >
That makes sense. Although walk, libui, qml are all older than 2 years. > I still think that GUI frameworks for Go are in baby stages even today. > Totally agree. > Why would I resort to some C libraries when "syscall" works with Windows > API well? > Few reasons, the C libs might provide more widgets and UI editor (i.e. qt + qml)... or in case of libui, it would provide cross-platform support. But, yeah, when targeting only Windows and controls are sufficient, then, yes, there's no point in introducing the complexity. > On Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at 3:45:22 AM UTC-5, Egon wrote: >> >> As for getting andlabs/ui compiling the easiest I've found is to use >> msys2... >> >> >> i.e. installation from scratch: >> >> 1. http://www.msys2.org/ >> 2. open msys shell >> 3. pacman -Syu >> 3.1 close from X >> 4. pacman -Su >> 5. pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-go >> 6. pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain >> mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain >> >> But, yeah... it could be much, much easier. >> >> On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 10:41:23 UTC+2, Egon wrote: >>> >>> Not sure why you had to build a GUI separately, there are already a few >>> libs, although some of them are still barebones... >>> >>> https://github.com/lxn/walk >>> https://github.com/andlabs/ui >>> >>> Of course there are also bindings for gtk and qt. >>> >>> On Monday, 15 January 2018 22:32:33 UTC+2, Tad Vizbaras wrote: >>>> >>>> Experience Report building OCR in Go: >>>> >>>> http://recoink.com/goreport >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
