* GTK+Emacs on w32?
@ 2008-05-27 8:16 joakim
2008-05-27 8:47 ` Jason Rumney
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From: joakim @ 2008-05-27 8:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Markus Triska tried the xwidget patch for embedding gtk widgets in emacs
buffers on macosx. I develop on fc8 gnu/linux.
It would be interesting to also test on w32, compiling emacs to use gtk
on w32. Is this possible?
--
Joakim Verona
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* Re: GTK+Emacs on w32?
2008-05-27 8:16 GTK+Emacs on w32? joakim
@ 2008-05-27 8:47 ` Jason Rumney
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From: Jason Rumney @ 2008-05-27 8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: joakim; +Cc: emacs-devel
joakim@verona.se wrote:
> Markus Triska tried the xwidget patch for embedding gtk widgets in emacs
> buffers on macosx. I develop on fc8 gnu/linux.
>
> It would be interesting to also test on w32, compiling emacs to use gtk
> on w32. Is this possible?
>
It seems (looking at bug reports he has filed) that Markus uses X11 on
macosx. Windows does not support X11 natively, so it will be
significantly harder (ie a rewrite of the GTK support in Emacs to not
depend on X, and a rewrite of the Windows code to not depend on the
native Windows API) to get a GTK build working with the w32 build of
Emacs. Cygwin will probably work, though I don't know if anyone has ever
successfully used GTK with the Cygwin X11 build (there doesn't appear to
be an active maintainer for the Cygwin port, and we only occasionally
hear about it from users when there are problems).
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* Re: GTK+Emacs on w32?
@ 2008-05-28 8:06 Angelo Graziosi
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From: Angelo Graziosi @ 2008-05-28 8:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Rumney; +Cc: emacs-devel
Jason Rumney wrote:
> Cygwin will probably work
NO. It bootstraps fine, but Emacs fails starting. See etc/PROBLEMS.
> there doesn't appear to be an active maintainer for the Cygwin port
If I remember, there is a maintainer, but, as you wrote, he is not active!.
> we only occasionally hear about it from users when there are problems
Me, mainly!
The best we can do on Cygwin is use XFT, adding to ~/.Xdefaults:
Emacs.FontBackend: xft
Emacs.font: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-14
Xft*antialias: true
Xft*autohint: true
Cheers,
Angelo.
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