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digitalmars.D.dwt - why "dwt-linux" instead of "dwt-gtk" ?

reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Is there anything specific to Linux in that
DWT variant, or would it work on other Unix ?

For instance FreeBSD and Mac OS X have support
for running GTK+ on either X11 or even Aqua...

--anders
Feb 21 2008
parent reply Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:
Anders F Björklund schrieb:

 
 Is there anything specific to Linux in that
 DWT variant, or would it work on other Unix ?
 
 For instance FreeBSD and Mac OS X have support
 for running GTK+ on either X11 or even Aqua...
 
 --anders



SWT has these variants:
  1.) win32-win32-x86         => dwt-win
  2.) wpf-win32-x86
  3.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2se
  4.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2me
  5.) gtk-linux-x86           => dwt-linux
  6.) gtk-linux-x86_64
  7.) gtk-linux-ppc
  8.) motif-linux-x86
  9.) gtk-solaris-sparc
10.) motif-solaris-sparc
11.) photon-qnx-x86
12.) motif-aix-ppc
13.) carbon-macosx

So, the project names could have been choosen more precisely like 
dwt-win32-win32-x86 and dwt-linux-gtk-x86. But I found this a bit too 
explicit. Perhaps, if we decide to also do a WPF or 64 bit port, we have 
to rethink the project names.

If you could use the dwt-linux for anything different from Linux, i 
don't know.
Feb 21 2008
parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Frank Benoit wrote:


 Is there anything specific to Linux in that
 DWT variant, or would it work on other Unix ?

 For instance FreeBSD and Mac OS X have support
 for running GTK+ on either X11 or even Aqua...



 SWT has these variants:
  1.) win32-win32-x86         => dwt-win
  2.) wpf-win32-x86
  3.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2se
  4.) win32-wce_ppc-arm-j2me
  5.) gtk-linux-x86           => dwt-linux
  6.) gtk-linux-x86_64
  7.) gtk-linux-ppc
  8.) motif-linux-x86
  9.) gtk-solaris-sparc
 10.) motif-solaris-sparc
 11.) photon-qnx-x86
 12.) motif-aix-ppc
 13.) carbon-macosx
 
 So, the project names could have been choosen more precisely like 
 dwt-win32-win32-x86 and dwt-linux-gtk-x86. But I found this a bit too 
 explicit. Perhaps, if we decide to also do a WPF or 64 bit port, we have 
 to rethink the project names.
 
 If you could use the dwt-linux for anything different from Linux, i 
 don't know.



I see, just my ignorance about available SWT versions then. :-)

And if you do decide to support 64-bit, that could probably fit
within the existing projects (even if needing different binaries)

While FreeBSD can run the Linux binaries, it doesn't help the Mac.
Then again the GTK+ port does look a bit "alien" on it anyway...

--anders
Feb 21 2008