Paul Cornford wrote:
Hi,
Below is a quote from an article by Michael Tschater on "Platform Independent Software Development" [http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/October2004/article350.shtml]
On the subject of "GTK+ (with gtkmm)" he says the following:
"Contrary to the professional appearance of GTK+ for Linux, 'GTK+ for Win32' is not impressive. Clicking on the link on the GTK+-mainpage immediately results in the warning "The program(s) might crash unexpectedly or behave otherwise strangely ". (But of course, so do many commercial programs on Windows.) The stability seems to depend a lot on the machine, display drivers, other software installed or not present (status 2004-09-06). The courageous software developer clicks on the download page anyway and faces a long list of individual software components for downloading. For a comprehensive package, one searches in vain. Instead of that an instruction on how to install a number of software components can be read and to return to the download page if some specific components are missing. This matches the statement of the 'GTK+ for Windows' webpage: "You are expected to be quite experienced to be able to use GTK+ in your own programs. This isn't Visual Basic." After installing the initial components and an unsuccessful attempt to start one of the sample applications, most of the developers may have lost their desire to get deeper into it. The very unprofessional presentation of the 'GTK+ for Win32' components disqualify the software 'package' for any professional application."
Can any of the list members confirm this? I was hoping to use Gtkmm to develop both Linux and Windows apps.
Regards,
Paul Cornford.
Be sure to use the installer from http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports/ , mingw-3.4.2 and dev-cpp.
Follow the instructions from the gtkmm-book and your app should compile, link and work fine [at least this is true for me - and i'm not talking about a toy project]. Note that dev-cpp comes in two versions: One version includes mingw-3.3.? and the other one doesn't install a compiler at all. You should use the second one and configure it for mingw-3.4.2.
Regards,
Antonio
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