Compilation with cygwin

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Guenther Sohler wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> is there a possibility to compile GTK Applications in CYGWIN in such a way,
> that you can start them from the Windows Desktop, instead just from the CYGWIN
> Bash ?


Any program compiled with Cygwin can be invoked directly outside of bash.
Some may give better results than others, depending on how you set up your
Windows path, whether it's a console app or not, etc.  I'm not a Cygwin GTK
expert but I believe if you compile a GTK app using the GTK package
distributed with Cygwin, you will require X, which means you'll need to be
running the X server before you can successfully start the program.


> How could such a program automatically find all required dll's ?


By looking in the PATH.


> 
> --------------------
> Is there a DEFINE Available for compilations by cygwin, that is actually beeing
> compiled with CYGWIN, instead of normal Unix eg a 
> WINDOWS=1 variable ?


Look for telltale defines returned by typing "gcc -v".


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