Re: [XBoard-devel] Cross compiling Winboard in Linux

[Byrial Jensen]

Den 07-01-2012 18:40, Byrial Jensen wrote:

> I was able to build the gtk version of xboard for target mingw
> (Windows), and run it with Wine.
>
> To do so I needed to replace some missing functions/system calls with
> do-nothing-stubs.
>
> Status:
> - I can more or less see and use the different windows and menus.
> - I have no pieces because the version of GTK+ for Windows I can
> download from http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/Win32 is built without support
> for svg-files. I seems I have to built gtk myself to get svg-support.
> - I cannot start any engines due fork() and other system calls not working.

Looked some more at it and found that svg-support can be enabled by 
adding and registering a svg pixbuf-loader dll which I did.

I think that I can get the GTK+ XBboard for Windows to actually work by 
inserting some Windows specific code from Winboard a few places.