Re[2]: Re[2]: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-03 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Andrew Robinson wrote: I have never seen a cross-compiled version of Fedora. Is it related to the mythical Chimera? Read for comprehension. Fedora is strictly Linux (of course), but offers a set of packages that enable you to cross-compile with ease for MS Windows. Alli

Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Robinson
I just found the link to MSVC 2013 on Microsoft's site. Visual Studio is not free, Visual Studio Express or Community is free. It will still require me to uninstall my current version of MSVC in order to run this older version, because different versions of MSVC on the same computer do not play wel

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-03 Thread Paolo Borelli
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Andrew Robinson 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 >

Re[2]: Re[2]: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Robinson
There are many ways to have good gtk3 binaries for Windows: - if you are using mingw you can fetch updated gtk3 binaries from msys2 (https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages) - if you are cross compling Fedora and other distros provide mingw binaries - if you are using MSVC, there are no pre-b