Re: porting Octal

[Ross Litscher]

Heya Marco. I'm not sure what the current state of it is, but I am 
pretty sure gtk+ is available for programming under ms-windows. I 
remember seeing screenshots of Gnome running on windows atleast.

ok, here is the site http://www.gtlinc.com/gnome-desktop.html
it seems though, that the user would need an X server, and i doubt many 
Windows users will just happen to have one installed. probably of more 
use to you would be http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/ which is the 
homepage for gtk+ for win32 systems. Using this instead of converting 
everything to wxWindows (i don't know what that is, actually) would 
probably save some time, i'm guessing.

Well, good luck with this :)
ross.

Marco Ballini wrote:

> Your discussion about porting Octal to FreeBSD made me remember that 
> David O'Toole once wrote about porting to Windows 2000 and my intentions 
> of porting the GUI from gtk+ to wxWindows. As I'm quite new to 
> programming I have some (probably stupid) questions about this issue. 
> How much complicated could be the porting? I noticed in octal files some 
> #include files, like <pthread.h> for example, and I was wondering how to 
> substitute them when compiling with MS Visual C++ 4.0 for Windows 95. 
> How many gtk+ specific (or even custom) widgets will Octal have? (I'm 
> trying to valuate how much work will require to write new widgets for 
> wxWindows). Anyhow I think it is better to wait till octal reaches a 
> more mature version, also because I hope that will come the time when 
> Windows users will want to switch to GNU/Linux to use Octal (as I am 
> doing). Or is it better for Octal always to stay in a _free_ OS?
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> Best regards,
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> MarcoB