[lazarus] Newbie Questions

[Marc Weustink]

At 00:43 5-8-2003 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Marc Weustink wrote:
>
> > At 00:14 5-8-2003 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >
> >
> > >On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Miguel wrote:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > > > 3) Can I compile using gtk widgets on win32 ?
> > >
> > >Many examples work, but the IDE itself doesn't. For me it's an open issue
> > >whether this is due to GTK-for-win32 itself or due to the workings of
> > >the LCL. I've written other GTK applications with almost all available
> > >widgets (so not just 'Hello world') which work perfectly on windows. This
> > >indicates that it's the LCL which is somewhere at fault, but the general
> > >opinion of the Lazarus developers is that it is GTK-for-win32 which
> > >doesn't work correctly. Judge for yourself.
> >
> > I think it is partly due to the missing GTK functions on the win32 lib.
> > Today I tried to compile, but it failed on GTK_WIDGET_SET_APP_PAINTABLE
>
>We must make a distinction between 'not in the GTK unit' and 'not in the
>win32 GTK dll'. The former doesn't necessarily imply the latter.
>
>You can uncomment the {$ifndef win32} around the call mentioned above
>in the GTK unit, because it is definitely present in the gtk dll.

OK, I thought of the old situation, where not in the unit mostly ment not 
in the dll.

>This is, in fact, true for many of the calls that are still between
>{$ifndef win32}...

OK

>The problem is/was that many of these calls were ifdefed out because the
>initial win32 version of the GTK dlls indeed didn't have these calls,
>and this resulted in errors when linking.
>
>But the 1.3 version has almost all calls: fpgtk uses most of them, and
>all works fine. (fpgtk was developed on windows, so...)
>
>It's not hard to test: comment all the remaining {$ifndef win32}, see
>which ones you must uncomment again to be able to link your
>application... If I find time, I will do it myself.
>
>Maybe then lazarus will work on win32 a little faster than expected ;)

I'll try it. Only problem is that we have to build our own gtk unit (again)

What shall I do with the modified gtk unit ?

Marc