Re: [packages] gtk+, glib, imlib

[Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

I think that the real problem here, as always, was that gtk+ and glib would
only build static libraries.  I have heard that the 2.0 versions of this libs
are able to build shared libraries on Cygwin, but I have not looked into this
myself.

Harold

Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com> said:

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:04:54PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> > Being interested in porting freeciv with gtk+ support... and gtk+ 
> > package being not available... I'm investigating it =)
> > 
> > Harold states he has not enough time for it ( 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00302.html ).
> > But has he a partial work or nothing?
> > 
> > Steven has a fairly complete Gnome port on his page ( 
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.obrien2/ ), which has nothing to do 
> > with Harold's work.
> > It contains patches for many Gnome programs, including glib-1.2.10, 
> > gtk+-1.2.10 and imlib-1.9.14.
> 
> I don't know about imlib but glib-1.2.10 and gtk+-1.2.10 compile OOTB. 
> I built them to create a gvim locally.  There was just one problem in
> glib/gstrfuncs.c.  There's an extern declaration for strsignal() which
> collides with a Cygwin header.  Just add a #ifndef __CYGWIN__ to the
> extern declaration and you're done.
> 
> Corinna
> 
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