Calum, Thanks for the links, you've given me a lot of new stuff to look at. I had no idea all of that was available; I was disappointed with the selection at sunfreeware, which is often out of date.
I'm surprised to hear that some of the software compiles better with sunstudio. I thought many of the libraries (like gtk) were built with gcc. I would expect better performance from sunstudio (as the native compiler), but more trouble compiling. BTW, I'm interested in GTK for gui development with gtkglext widgets, not for GNOME. I believe solaris opengl support within sunstudio is limited to SPARC workstations, and any testing I would do would be on x86 systems (although, once again, the final destination would be SPARC). Again, thanks for the help. I'm new to a lot of this, so your pointers are definitely helpful. Brett -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 5:56 PM To: Brett Stottlemyer Cc: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: help me catch up on GTK gui tools On 6 Aug 2006, at 18:18, Peter Firefly Lund wrote: > > (btw. why on Earth do you have to use Solaris at all? Is it Company > Policy that Cannot be Changed? ZFS and dtrace are cool but isn't that > about it?) Umm... no. But this is hardly the place for a "My Kernel's Better Than Your Kernel" discussion, so let's just all play nice :) FWIW, to the OP... if you want an easier way to manage your GNOME dependencies on Solaris, and don't need support from Sun, you might want to investigate the Solaris apt package repository at http:// blastwave.org. If you prefer to build from source, some of the tools that we use to build GNOME and various other things for Solaris from RPM spec files might be of interest (although they currently work better with the SunStudio compiler than with gcc): http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net http://www.opensolaris.org/os/ community/desktop/communities/jds/building Some community-contributed spec files, including gtkmm: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/ Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
