>From the recent posts it seems there are issues with the xboard GTK branch. >Nevertheless I thought I would play around with it and see what the issues are >with porting xboard GTK versions to windows.
I have made a version that works on cygwin (see http://www.johncheetham.com/files/xboard/xboard-gtk-20110609.zip). This includes a windows executable and instructions in README-CYGWIN for compiling and running on cygwin. Of course it still compiles on Linux with gtk >= 2.16. The main thing I noticed with cygwin is that to run GTK programs (even hello world) you need to run the cygwin X server. Cygwin includes the X packages including xaw etc so you could probably run the mixed version as well, though I haven't tried it. Having to start an X server could put some users off though. Instead of cygwin I had wanted to use the mingw compiler which is described as the 'natural' choice on www.gtk.org. You can use it as a cross-compiler to compile the windows executable on Linux. It's not POSIX though so it means there are a lot more coding changes needed than with cygwin. John Cheetham
