John, I am maintaining several gtk2 applications for windows that I'm cross compiling from Linux. I'm using Fedora for the cross compilation and the way I'm working is as follows:
- Install the necessary mingw64 packages through dnf - Install mingw32-nsis for the generation of a windows Installer for your application on Linux. Compile with the cross compilation environment of your choice. E.g. you can use automake through the script mingw64-configure . Personally I'm using scons where I manually set up all the compilation and linkage environments, etc. For an example see my image viewer giv at https://github.com/dov/giv/blob/master/SConstruct . Regarding gtk3 and gtk2, nobody is removing gtk2 for the foreseeable future, and you can continue using it as long as you see fit. One of the "big" cross platform gtk applications, inkscape, is still using gtk2. On the other hand if you want the new functionality of gtk3, go ahead and port, and you can cross compile for Windows in the same method. Regards, On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:26 AM John Mills <joh...@effect.net.au> wrote: > Hello list > > If this question should be raised on another list, please let me know. > > I have been developing a C-language GTK+ 2.0 application for MS Windows 10 > using mingw > cross-compilation on Linux, and deploying it by installing the Windows > GTK+ 2.0 runtime > bundle on the Windows machine. > http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/ > > The procedure was: on Linux development machine, unzip the gtk Windows > bundle in a directory > with the C source, set up a Makefile with the appropriate CFLAGS and > LDFLAGS, 'make mingw' > and deploy the EXE. This procedure suited my development style. > > Do I now need to port to GTK+ 3? > Is MSYS2 now the best/only way to deploy the dependencies to Windows? > Using the binaries available through MSYS2/pacman, can I still develop on > Linux and deploy > mingw executables to Windows? > Can anyone point me to a guide for doing that? > > Thank you > John Mills > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
