On 10/23/2018 02:16 AM, John Mills wrote: > I have been developing a C-language GTK+ 2.0 application for MS Windows 10 > using mingw > cross-compilation on Linux, and deploying it by installing the Windows GTK+ > 2.0 runtime > bundle on the Windows machine. > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/ >
Those are fine. > The procedure was: on Linux development machine, unzip the gtk Windows bundle > in a directory > with the C source, set up a Makefile with the appropriate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS, > 'make mingw' > and deploy the EXE. This procedure suited my development style. > That is the 'start'. There are always additional pieces you may need to install like any additional needed build dependencies like, e.g. gtksourcview, libxml, etc.. When I set this up, I simply create a base /opt directory at c:\opt and then install the various packages for gtk2 under c:\opt\gtk2. You then simply add the the directory containing your the libraries to your PATH. > Do I now need to port to GTK+ 3? No, not unless you simply want to. It depends on the size of the source and how much time you want to devote to it. I still build gtk+2 with the binaries you are using on Win10 without issue. > Is MSYS2 now the best/only way to deploy the dependencies to Windows? No, not needed. Simply install the dependencies wherever you like (as my c:\opt\gtk2) and then add the path to the libraries (e.g. c:\opt\gtk2\bin) to your User (not system) PATH variable. You will also need the path to the mingw\bin directory in your path as well. Then I just open the good ole windows command prompt (cmd.exe) and build. Remember if you are using mingw-TDM, the binaries are named, e.g. mingw32-make (for make), etc... I have additional mingw/gtk2/windows build information at https://github.com/drankinatty/gtkwrite > Using the binaries available through MSYS2/pacman, can I still develop on > Linux and deploy > mingw executables to Windows? You should be able to, but I have not set up the cross-compile chain on Linux to test. I just used the windows gtk2 binaries and it works fine for my purposes. > Can anyone point me to a guide for doing that? Somebody else will have to fill this in... Good luck. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
