Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard GTK on Windows

[Arun Persaud]

Hi

On 06/09/2011 11:57 AM, K12 wrote:
> 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.

nice! I think once we get rid of all the Xt code there is no need to run
it in X anymore

> 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.

I managed to cross compile winboard with mingw a while ago and run the
exectuble in wine on my linux box... don't remember exactly, but I think
I didn't change much in the source code...

cheers
        ARUN