RE: lablgtk for Win32

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@best.com>]

I've been free of Windows for a few months now but from what I recall and
have read all of the non WinNT (I guess that is WinX where X < 2000) platforms 
are a unstable with respect to GTK, so before blaming lablgtk or even GTK 
check your programs on some newer versions of Windows. If you use Win98 or 
Win95 and you can't tolerate unstable software you're in a quandary!

I agree that lablgtk (and CamlP4, and Pcre :) should be part of the prebuilt 
release, though I guess that lablgtk is still a work in progress so it may
be a bit soon for that. 

-- Brian

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Mattias Waldau wrote:

> I have been using GIMP on my Win2000 machine for 0.5 year, and it always
> works, and I never had a crash. So I think GTK is stable enough.
> 
> If there is a problem, it is probably in the Lablgtk-layer. I also tried a
> little to get it up and running on my win2000, but failed. Since I have a
> Linux machine, I didn't put a big effort into it. Instead I use Lablgtk on
> Linux currenlty, and hopes that there will be a easy to install lablgtk for
> win2000 sometimes in the future.
> 
> I hope that Lablgtk will be a standard library of Ocaml.
> 
> /mattias
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre.Weis@inria.fr [mailto:Pierre.Weis@inria.fr]On Behalf Of
> Sven LUTHER
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:58 PM
> To: Jonathan Coupe
> Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
> Subject: Re: lablgtk for Win32
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:33:47PM -0000, Jonathan Coupe wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience of using lablGTK on Windows? It seems like
> a
> > very powerful system, but gtk itself doesn't seem to be very actively
> > supported on Windows.
> 
> I don't think this is true, i launched gimp on windows almost three year ago
> (well it didn't go very far, since it searched for a home directory which i
> didn't had defined, but it did work), and there are lot of windows-related
> stuff in the changelog of the gtk1.1/1.2 versions, so i guess it is working
> quite well, look at : http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/ for more info and
> try it out.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
>