llancet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm attempting to use Gtk2 to make some program running on windows, and currently found some problem:

It seems that Glade is helpful for developing UIs, but it become a mess while I start to install Gtk2::GladeXML on windows -- it requires pkgconfig...

Next, I started to seek if there is something could convert Glade XML definition to perl code, and I found "Glade-Perl-Two". However, it is designed for Glade2, but we now have Glade3. I think it's likely to produce compatiability problems.

Any suggestions to overwhelm such mess? Thanks!

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Re: Problem about Glade, Gtk2, and windows
by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 30, 2009 at 15:18 UTC
    ...yeah...I can sympathize with your problem... on linux gtk2 is such a breeze, but to get it to run right on windows is hit or miss... ;-(

    ... i did get satisfactory results on my last attempt, by first installing the Gimp for win32 package, then installing Camelbox: A build of Gtk2-Perl for Windows .... its worth a shot while you watch halloween movies tommorrow.. ;-) .... i wonder if the new Windows7 ( or whatever) is going to be better.... frankly, I'm so happy with Linux, that I don't even care.... :-)

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      Actually, install gtk2 on windows perl 5.8 is not such painful. There are pre-compiled gtk2 packages for windows perl 5.8 which do not need weird things. Unfortunately the package don't have GladeXML...
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Re: Problem about Glade, Gtk2, and windows
by kubrat (Scribe) on Oct 30, 2009 at 16:56 UTC

    Camelbox comes with Glade though not sure what version exactly and it worked out of the box on Windows XP for me.

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Re: Problem about Glade, Gtk2, and windows
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 30, 2009 at 19:11 UTC
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