I've been doing some GUI programming on Linux using GTK2 (because I'm pretty familiar with it and like the API), but when I tried to install Gtk+ on my MSWin8 box, I ran into problems.

Using CPAN to try to install Gtk2 dies because it can't find/install one of the dependencies, following the instructions in the download from gtk.org got me nowhere (it/I couldn't find one of the programs listed in the instructions), and the installers for GTK I found on the net are all pretty stale.

So, I'm looking at switching to a different toolkit.

I've poked around a bit looking for suggestions, but all the questions I found on here and other forum sites were also fairly old.

My main audience is, I think, going to be people who run Windows. If I, as a fairly experienced user, can't get the underlying GUI toolkit working, I can't expect Joe User to be able to do it, and I don't want to put any unnecessary barriers in the way of using my program.

I'm looking pretty strongly at WxWidgets, but I wanted to get some input, in case there's something better. What's the best toolkit these days for end-user ease-of-use on MS-Windows, that also works under Linux?

In reply to State of the GUI widget art? by over2sd

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