GTK+Emacs on w32?

GTK+Emacs on w32?

[joakim]

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

Re: GTK+Emacs on w32?

[Jason Rumney]

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).

Re: GTK+Emacs on w32?

[Angelo Graziosi]

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.