Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard GTK on Windows

[Michel Van den Bergh]

> 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.
I am sure this is not literally true. There is a native windows port of 
gtk by Tor Lillqvist's which is used for example by the win 32 version 
of Gimp. Unfortunately the last time I looked it was not at all obvious 
how to install or use it.

Perhaps things have changed for the better....