On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:54 AM Jerome Flesch <jfle...@kwain.net> wrote:
> Le 2019-03-10 12:01, Kasper Peeters a écrit : > >> 1. GTK is not so cross-platform anymore: on Windows and macOS, you > >> are supposed to build your own library binaries (gvsbuild for Windows > >> and jhbuild for macOS exist, but are not foolproof). > > > > That's definitely not true; on Windows there's vcpkg and on macOS > > there is Homebrew; both let you install reasonably up-to-date versions > > of GTK3 with a single command line. > > For Windows, there is also Msys2 ( https://www.msys2.org/ ). It may be > more handy for porting applications from Linux to Windows. This is what > I intend to use to build the next versions of Paperwork ( > https://openpaper.work ) for Windows. > > I've also had extreme difficulty in the past with deploying on Windows. Not being a ( proficient ) C developer, and not having experience with building on Windows didn't help. I've toyed with broadway ( including writing an authentication layer, app launcher and transparent proxy ) for giving Windows users a relatively painless way of accessing apps, though was discouraged from this by statements of broadway being experimental and probably not making it through the gtk-4 work. More recently this may have changed ( there were a bunch of commits to broadway stuff for gtk-4 ), though from a user perspective there are still some bits missing. I've recently ( last year or so ) switched to deploying with Flatpak, and this has worked astonishingly well. In particular, Alexander Larsson's work: - https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/09/17/flatpak-on-windows/ - https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/tree/wip/WSL ... has given us a very easy path for at least bringing up our apps on Windows. You still need an X Server ( I use MobaXterm, though I assume we could build and package an X server too? ). The only thing that hasn't worked out-of-the-box for us has been maximising windows. This is a bit nasty, but with some hacks to save + restore window geometry, it's not a deal-breaker. Keep in mind we haven't done a production deployment yet ( luckily all clients recently have been fine with running Linux ), but I've done a reasonable amount ( many hours ) of testing and only found this 1 issue. I would suggest people who need windows binaries check out the Flatpak angle. Dan
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