I ported one of my gtkmm apps to cygwin with gtkmm. My goal is to assemble an installer or a zip archive for the end user to be able to install and run the app on his/her machine.
The app uses POSIX functions and has to be built with cygwin dll (thus I cannot use http://www.pcpm.ucl.ac.be/~gustin/win32_ports) According to Robert's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posting on 10 Mar 2004, my case is what he categorized as #1 scenario: "1. The cygwin development environment which resembles a unix environment in which you compile code containing POSIX calls and which produces executables depending on cywin.dll for POSIX emulation." The way I built it is this: - I ran cygwin installer and in sntalled the minimum configuration plus development packages for gcc, gtk+, and autotools. - Then I re-ran cygwin installer adding http://cygwin-ports.sf.net/install target to the list and picked up all of the gtkmm packages. - Configured and compiled my app and installed it to prefix=/usr/local There are two problems I'm struggling with right now: 1. It seems that resultant foobar.exe won't run without having X server up and running. Yet it seems that demo apps from GTK+ runtime env don't have this requirement and doesn't come with X server bundled. Am I missing a compiler flag or something? Many posts to this list assume '-mno-cygwin'. I cannot make such an assumption 'cause I need POSIX functinality. 2. Given that #1 is resolved, how would I package my binaries? Here's what I have already tried: - I downloaded Gtk+/Win32 Runtime Environment Installer from gladewin32.sf.net and installed it to c:\GTK - Then the popular suggestion for gtkmm/cygwin seems to be getting gtkmm binary packages from http://cygwin-ports.sf.net. They come in .tar.bz2 files and GTK+ RTE doens't have tar/bunzip2. I tried to unpack and drop them into c:\GTK. And then drop my app's exec/pixmaps/config files to c:\GTK as well. At this point, should I try to start foobar.exe and keep adding all missing dlls to c:\GTK\bin? Scanning throught the mailing list archives, I came upon these suggestions: >From Cedric Gustin posting on Sun, 4 Jan 2004, "Your gtkmm application will require both the gtkmm and GTK+ runtimes. For gtkmm, this is basically the glibmm, pangomm, atkmm, gdkmm and gtkmm DLLs." I'm new to win32/cygwin world, and any suggestions/pointers to the actial apps would be highly appreciated. -- Vlad _____________________________________________________________ Vladislav Grinchenko http://home.comcast.net/~3rdshift/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Focus on quality, and productivity will follow. _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
