From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 17:38:34 EDT
> Hi,
> mpuea> To our mingw developers,
> mpuea> I saw this email on a gnome mailing lista little
> while ago. mpuea> I was wondering if any of you intrepid hackers could
> take up the challenge mpuea> to build Gunmeric (a really good
> Spreadsheet based on Gnome technologies) mpuea> on Windows.
>
> mpuea> There are also projects that enable GTK2 based programs to look
> like mpuea> native Windows XP applications.
>
> mpuea> If we can get Gnumeric compiled on Windows we a huge step closer
> to having mpuea> an Office Suite on Windows.
>
> mpuea> Cheers :-)
> As far as I know, Gnumeric uses GTK as window system. GTK has port to
> windows, so plain compiling it on MinGW shouldn't be too difficult (but
> rather laborious ;-), IMHO. If one need to re-implement
> everything using native controls (as AbiWord does) it's titanic job.
>
You're right Sinitsyn. The idea is to use the Windows port of GTK 2 (plus
the assosciated GNOME 2 libraries). Re-writing Gnumeric to fit into the
AbiWord framework is way too much work.
Until this post I thought using even the Windows port of Gtk 2 would be
too hard because of Gnumeric dependencies of Gnome.
However given that Gnome is reported to have been ported, I guess that
Gnumeric itself could be ported too.
Cheers
Martin
> Regards,
> Valentine
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