Re: [Bug-gnubg] Win32 Builds - GTK/GTK2 etc

[Joern Thyssen]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 12:08:30AM -0600, Michael Petch wrote
> 
> After botching a submission with a bad patch because I didn't have a
> Win32 build environment I decided to take a look at work I had started
> back last August.
> 
> But before I move forward I'd like to know. Why do we not use a proper
> Mingw/Msys environment on Win32, and use the ./configure; make dance
> on it. 

I don't know... I think someone worked on it a while ago, and it should
(in principle) work. Try searcing through the mailing list archive.

> Secondly, I was wondering why we are utilizing GTK on WIndows and
> Not GTK2? (Are there known bugs/limitation with the gtk2 and gnubg's
> dependencies on that platform)?

GTK2 has been notoriously slow for win32. I don't know if this is the
case anymore with recent builds of GTK2. Nardy? Øystein?

Jørn

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