Re: [XBoard-devel] Xboard GTK on Windows

[Arun Persaud]

On 06/09/2011 03:58 PM, h.g. muller wrote:
> WinBoard versions that are dependent on Cygwin are not really acceptable.
> Our current WinBoard binary distributions are all MinGW compiles.
> So the Cygwin GTK lib is not usable for those. We should have a GTK
> that runs directly under Windows, and then somehow make gcc
> use that.

As mentioned before I don't think this should be an issue as long as we
stay with the Gtk versions for which native windows builds are available
(2.16 and 2.22).

Perhaps we should just start to port things to Gtk. The main issue still
seems to be front-end back-end separation in several parts of XBoard
that would make this easier... how about, we start a new GTK branch
where we mix Xt and Gtk and replace window by window. Then HGM can work
on more front-end, back-end separation in master, we can easily
cheery-pick it to the gtk-branch and only change those windows where HGM
is done.

HGM: can you already give a list of windows that are ok to port (apart
from the filebrowser)?

cheers
        ARUN