[Gretl-devel] Re: no folder icon in new snapshot
On Sun, 15 Dec 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Am 14.12.2019 um 23:30 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> (You may wonder, why not update a lot further? [Current GLib is
> the 2.60 series.] Well, it has become increasingly difficult to
> cross-compile GLib Linux -> Windows, particularly if one aims to
> preserve compatibility with earlier Windows versions, and avoid bloat of
> the gretl installer package.)
Thanks for the investigation, Allin. Maybe another reason to try
building directly on Windows in the medium term?
Not really -- I didn't state the case very clearly. It's not
cross-compilation as such that's the problem with recent GLib. You can
get the latest and greatest oven-ready for cross-mingw64, though I
build the GTK stack myself. Rather, it's preserving compatibility for
old Windows and avoiding bloat (newly added features for which we have
no need).
Allin