Re: gtk with cygwin

[Steven O'Brien <steven dot obrien2 at ntlworld dot com>]

Hi
On my website at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/
I have published the patches that I found that I needed to apply to
build a gnome 1.4 desktop and some gnome apps on cygwin on NT/2k/XP.
These are "unofficial", unsupported, and very experimental; suitable
only for experienced users of gnome, cygwin, and the gnu build tools.
That said, I think that it is the best you will find at present for a
genuine gnome "experience" on Windows.

I am currently, slowly, working to build binary packages, and add
support for 9x/Me. But as I am the only person working on this project,
and I have 40 packages to maintain, it will be quite some time before
any binaries are published, and they may never make to it "official"
cygwin package status, for the reasons stated by Chuck. However, I do
hope that they will eventually be published somewhere as unsupported
pre-built binaries that you can point cygwin setup.exe at, much like
cygwin-KDE is at the moment. I'll let you know if I ever get that far.

Steven

Original message:
Where:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/
(+ look at the links on that site)

why they aren't official:
nobody has volunteered to become the maintainer. See this page for
information on creating setup-installable packages:
http://cygwin.com/setup.html
You'll see it is a lot of work, and nobody has yet had the time.
Further, they depend on things that are not packages themselves (cygipc,
libiconv, etc) -- and the rule is: "no official package may depend on
anything but other official packages"(*)

(*) one exception, which predated this policy: postgres depends on
cygipc.

Care to volunteer, instead of whine?

--Chuck



Sylvain Petreolle wrote:



Where are they ?
And if they exist why doesn't a package has been made
?

 --- Jean-Claude Gervais <jc.gervais@videotron.ca> a
écrit : > You have to apply the cygwin patches to it
and then


it compiles perfectly.
I was able to run all the sample GTK apps too.