[pygtk] pygtk 2.12 win32 binaries?

[Rafael Villar Burke]

Alec Hussey wrote:
> On the other hand GTK seems to be a real pain in the ass to setup on
> any system other than BSD/Linux. Its really disappointing. So I can
> only hope that these people (GTK and PyGTK respectively) start taking
> notice of the need for better cross-platform support and start making
> some changes.
AFAIK, it's mainly a manpower problem and having one or two commited
people willing to properly document and give some more care to the
building and packaging process on windows can really make a huge difference.

GTK+ binaries for windows are being built and offered on the www.gtk.org
website (http://gtk.org/download-windows.html), but we lack convenient
packaging and the build process is indeed in need of better documentation.

It looks like, though, there's not enough people interested in helping
with this to make it go forward or the potentially interested ones don't
have the information on how to join the effort or that it even exists.

These are some resources that I hope can get some more people in it:

- There's a mailing list to coordinate the efforts to improve the win32
gtk+ packaging:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-win32-list

- some more information about the current status can be found in Alberto
Ruiz's blog:
http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2007/05/call_for_gtk_wi.html
http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2007/05/gtkwin32_amateu.html
http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2006/12/allinone_win32_.html

- John Stowers has blogged about how to build the gtk+ stack using
jhbuild on windows using msys and mingw:
http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/12/16/jhbuild-anything-on-windows-in-12-steps/
and has also explained his experience trying to get it to work:
http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/12/11/jhbuild-adventures-on-windows/
http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/blog/index.php/2007/12/13/jhbuild-and-windows-we-meet-again/
He, Alberto Ruiz and Fréderic Peters have made some changes to jhbuild
to make it work more easily on win32.
(http://www.0d.be/2008/01/07/new-adventures-in-jhbuild/ )

- There's some information on the gnome wiki on how to cross compile
gtk+ for win32 using jhbuild:
http://live.gnome.org/Cross_compiling_GTK%2B_for_Win32?highlight=%28win32%29

I've added this information to a blog post here:
http://blog.rvburke.com/2008/01/30/gtk-and-pygtk-on-win32/

Anyone willing to scratch this itch?

Have fun,

Rafael Villar Burke