DM Smith wrote: > On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > >> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Chris Little wrote: >>> Ultimately, I'm hoping (fingers crossed) to get GnomeSword (maybe >>> even >>> BibleTime?) building on/for Win32 in a way that it can be distributed >>> binary-only in a minimal way (that is, without a huge Cygwin >>> install). >>> >>> --Chris >> It would be good if you succeeded but I wonder if that is possible. GS >> depends on Gnome libraries and BT depends on KDE libraries. At least >> BT >> can not be linked statically. You have to distribute the KDE libraries >> with BT, and I don't know if KDE has ever worked with Windows/ >> Cygwin. I >> guess BT and GS both need the basic Cygwin installation anyways. > > Karl has built GnomeSword under Cygwin to run on Windows. > > I think clucene was the only outstanding matter. > > The following gives the threads on the matter: > http://www.google.com/search?q=site:crosswire.org+sword-devel+GnomeSword+cygwin
GTK apps on Windows are fairly common and I suspect it should be possible to build most of them under MinGW. (Gimp & Gaim are the top two that come to mind.) GNOME & GTKHTML are also ported to compile under MinGW. How easy it will be to build an unported app like GnomeSword I don't know. I also don't know how large the binaries (with all those dependencies) will ultimately be. BT is certainly far less likely to build in Windows using MinGW. I haven't searched much, since I think GS will be a path of far less resistence, but I don't believe KDE has even been ported to compile under MinGW. (As with GS, I'm really not interested in Cygwin builds, so Cygwin/KDE isn't something I'm interested in.) --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
