Re: [Gretl-devel] GTK broadway support in gretl?
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 02.03.2019 um 19:49 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> yet another "funny" question from me about other possibilities to run
>> gretl: I've read that there is a module called "broadway" in the
GTK
>> framework which in principle allows the graphical interface of a program
>> (based on GTK) to appear in a HTML5-enabled (thus: any modern) browser.
>>
>> Is it possible to build gretl with this broadway support? (Or is it
>> already activated?) On Linux? On Windows?
>
> See http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-users/2014-January/009564.html
> and the following few messages.
Wow, I've forgotten about that, five years ago!
Do you happen to know anything about the GTK libraries that are
bundled with the Windows version? Would the support something like
that?
No, I'm afraid not, you'd have to be on Linux (if using packaged
gretl). The Windows and Mac gretl packages use GTK2 (which I think
works better with gretl on all platforms).
(I could try myself but I wouldn't know how to adapt a command
like
"GDK_BACKEND=broadway UBUNTU_MENUPROXY= LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 gretl" to the
Windows environment.)
If one were to build gretl on Windows using GTK3 (which should be
possible, since GTK3 is available via mingw-w64, though I haven't
tried it myself) I guess it should work. You'd just have to put
GDK_BACKEND=broadway into the environment in the Windows manner
(google it!), and be running a web server, of course.
Allin