I've just been wondering; Are there any future plans for porting Dillo to the Windows platform? Or is Dillo to stay on GNU/Linux? I think porting to Windows would let Dillo have a much bigger audience to speak to (since about 90% of the worlds computers run Windows). I just wondered if there were any plans? Best regards for a wonderful open-source browser, Andreas Tolfsen <ato@itnerd.net>
At 03:37 AM 7/7/2003, Andreas Tolfsen wrote:
I've just been wondering; Are there any future plans for porting Dillo to the Windows platform? Or is Dillo to stay on GNU/Linux?
Good question. (Although technically it's not Linux-only right now, it's Linux & Unix only.) Just for fun I tried building it on Windows 2000 with Cygwin. It seems to work fine, although I can't say I've done any serious stress testing. Note that you do need to download and compile glib and gtk+ <http://www.gtk.org/> and make one change to the glib source <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00276.html>. Of course this is no real solution, because you have to: (1) Install Cygwin with XFree86, (2) Install Glib/GTK+, and (3) Run X every time you want to use Dillo. There is a port of GTK+ to Windows, though, which was originally done for the Windows port of GIMP <http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/>. I have no idea what else would be needed to port Dillo using these, or whether any of the main developers would think it was worth the effort. Kelson Vibber www.hyperborea.org
It seem's the windows platform is losing ground rather rapidly, so it might not be worth the trouble to support at soon to be obsolete system. ;-) Lars Segerlund. ( there is a smiley above, no flames :-) ). Andreas Tolfsen wrote:
I've just been wondering; Are there any future plans for porting Dillo to the Windows platform? Or is Dillo to stay on GNU/Linux?
I think porting to Windows would let Dillo have a much bigger audience to speak to (since about 90% of the worlds computers run Windows).
I just wondered if there were any plans?
Best regards for a wonderful open-source browser,
Andreas Tolfsen <ato@itnerd.net>
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Lars Segerlund wrote:
It seem's the windows platform is losing ground rather rapidly, so it might not be worth the trouble to support at soon to be obsolete system.
I'd love to be able to cite these words in the future! I'll be looking forward!
;-) Lars Segerlund.
( there is a smiley above, no flames :-) ).
Technically, Dillo aims to run in POSIX compatible systems. Cheers Jorge.-
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