Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:57:43 +0200
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>,
        =?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr>,
        lablgtk@kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: lablgtk on windows ...
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From: Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 07:53:40AM -0400, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> * Sven Luther (sven.luther at wanadoo.fr) wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > En réponse à Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>:
> > > 
> > > > Hello, ...
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > > So, what is the correct way to building lablgtk on windows ? What
> > > > compiler, ocaml, gtk+ and such are used ? 
> > > > 
> > > > Any help would be welcome.
> > > 
> > > I think that you want prebuilt binaries, don't you?
> > > 
> > > http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
> > 
> > No, they don't work with cygwin/mingw :
> > 
> >     The binaries (DLLs and executables) in these packages are not for the
> >     Cygwin environment. They use the MSVCRT runtime. 
> 
> That's the one you want:
> cygwin <> cygwin + mingw (mingw = msvcrt runtime)
> mingw only provides a compiler (it stands for minimal gcc for windows, I
> guess), where cygwin provides a bunch of libraries and unix
> compatibility layer.
> 
> The reason to get cygwin + mingw (that is install the mingw that is
> provided by cygwin) is to have access to all the nice unix tools. Then
> mingw is turned on using a switch on cygwin gcc.
> 
> So go get these gtk packages, they're the ones ;-)

:))))

Thanks very much, i will try it out now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther