In some cases, it's appropriate to create a new meditation or question, but in my opinion only when you have really new stuff to ask or meditate on. I find that the interested parties usually keep track of things via the Recently Active Threads or Newest Nodes. Both are places where you see new arrivals of nodes.
Nodes could technically be moved to Tutorials but Meditations or Seekers of Perl Wisdom nodes seldom are tutorial material. A tutorial must have been written with having a tutorial in mind. In your case, I think that it's a good meditation in any case. It leans towards a tutorial, but I think a tutorial should be more step-by-step.
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Yup, that was beginning to be my opionion of it too. The case in point is that compiling things under win32 is highly variable, and I wanted to use a notorious example (i.e. installing Gtk2) as it highlighted most, if not all, the usual suspects. A tutorial really needs to be entirely deterministic in it's outcome, and that, I fear, is beyond any Windows module compiling sequence.
OTOH it has shown that the compile environment is complet, it's just that the Makefiles need tweaking.
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Then why not splitting up your node in two: one about setting up the compiling environment and one about the practical Gtk2 Makefiles issue?
CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James
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