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Re: Functional Cygwin GTK with native win32 backend
- From: Michael Enright <mike at kmcardiff dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:47:52 -0800
- Subject: Re: Functional Cygwin GTK with native win32 backend
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On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:11 AM, David Xu wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I compiled GTK with the native win32 backend, and it is functional.
> Brief demo: http://i.imgur.com/PAWyLdW.gif
Many programs that originally target Linux have been made available to
Windows users by means of packaging them with GTK et al. It's not too
surprising that this would work.
>
> I would like to bring up discussion about the possibility of including
> a native windows build of GTK in the Cygwin package list as well,
> since it turns out that the steps that I took weren't so bad.
GTK is already available through Cygwin with the X backend and the
PTBs[0] here like it that way.
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