Thank you Lucas, for submitting this post. MXE seems very interesting and I feel compelled to do some more research into it.
On 5/2/2016 at 3:36 AM, Lucas Levrel <llev...@yahoo.fr> wrote: >(copy to OP in case he's already unsubscribed, apologies for duplication >if he's not) > >Le 30 avril 2016, Andrew Robinson a écrit : >> Now my new problem I had was either locating a Win32 version of GTK+ greater >> than v3.18 or locating a version of libglib.dll greater than v2.40. It isn't >> going to happen. The GTK+ project itself does not support Win32 or Win64, >> expecting the developer to install MSYS2 and then ... nothing. The GTK+ >> project gives no further instructions on what to do next. Getting the Linux >> binaries for GTK+ in MSYS2 seems easy, but I don't want the Linux binaries, I >> want the Windows binaries. I would compile my own binaries for Windows but >> there is little reliable and complete information out there on how to do it >> and what is there isn't credible. From what I understand, compiling binaries >> for Win32 is a very time consuming and tedious project, so I knew if I had any >> problems compiling it, I would not receive any help from the GTK+ (or probably >> even the GNOME) community in resolving them. > >I'm not an expert programmer and when I wanted to compile for Windows the >software I developped in Linux, I couldn't achieve a satisfactory result >(using the -mwin32 or -mwindows flag gave either a clumsy additional >command window, or yielded an antivirus alert!). > >Then I found MinGW Cross Env, now called MXE (http://mxe.cc/). It compiled >my project with no effort at all. When you install it, it compiles the >cross-compiler and the libs you want, so this takes quite long, but with >no user intervention. Then all you have to do is add such lines in your >Linux-ready Makefile: > ># prepend all binaries with a later-defined prefix >PKG_CONFIG=$(CROSS)pkg-config >CXX=$(CROSS)g++ >LD=$(CROSS)ld >AR=$(CROSS)ar >STRIP=$(CROSS)strip >.. ># define the prefix in the rules targeting Windows >myrule : CROSS=/path/to/bin/i686-pc-mingw32- >myrule : ... > >HTH > >-- >Lucas Levrel _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
