[XBoard-devel] Xboard GTK on Windows

[K12]

>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.

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.

John Cheetham