On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Robinson <arobinso...@cox.net>
wrote:

> The website, https://github.com/wingtk/gtk-win32, looks really good at
> first
> glance, until you read the fine print where it says, "Any version of VS
> apart
> from 2013 is not supported". What if I don't have VS 2013, what then? You
> can't download it from Microsoft's website although you can buy it for
> $400+
> from Amazon.


MSVC Community Edition if free (free as in beer, not free software) and
works just fine.

Mingw doesn't have any binaries for GTK+, it is a compiler and you have to
> download 27 sub-projects that the GTK+ toolkit is comprised of, then
> compile
> them all with the (hopefully) proper command line switches to get
> binaries. It
> is a laborious and a very, very poorly documented process. Again, no thank
> you.
>
>
Not really. It is a matter of running a couple of commands and you fetch
the compiled binaries for gtk.
This old blog post is still valid
https://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2014/08/01/how-to-build-your-gtk-application-on-windows/


I have never seen a cross-compiled version of Fedora. Is it related to the
> mythical Chimera?
>
>
Not sure because I do not do cross compiling (we use both the above methods
in production to distribute windows applications). As far as I know it is
just a matter of "dnf installl gtk3-mingw64" or something similar.


Paolo
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