On 06/23/2012 09:33 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > Eric Tavenner <estaven...@gmail.com> writes: >> My goal is to be able to write code for the same app in either Linux >> or Windows, and compile for both from the same code. Is this >> possible? > > Sure. I'm project admin for a program (Xiphos) which has a single code > base and builds under several flavors of Linux, BSD, and Win32. We use > MinGW tools under Ubuntu to do the build, then transfer the result to > Windows for testing. We cross-build the Win32 installer. > > As also mentioned, your build system will be as big a problem as > anything. We use waf these days, which has a few nightmares all its > own, but it generalizes past what we formerly had in autotools pretty > well. The biggest hurdle we've had is getting waf's auto config to > discover localization and related things, and we've resorted to a Big > Ugly Hack to convince our config.h to show the right things for Win32. > > Also be aware that anything to do with the filesystem in Windows will > cause you grief unless you use glib's wrapper functions (g_chdir, > g_setenv, g_access, ...) by which to insulate yourself from the oddities > of UTF-16 pathnames. > > --karl
One doc I found extremely useful is: http://www.iki.fi/tml/fosdem-2006.pdf There is also: http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/cross-gtk/ (These are links from http://www.gtk.org/documentation.php) -- Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
