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The GTK4 package is not available in MinGW, but I don't see an obvious reason for that. Or did I misunderstand something? And it's actually already possible to use GTK with MinGW? |
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First, we need to deal with a lot of dependencies. |
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It is possible, but this would require to add MinGW platform support to GTK4 dependencies at first place. That is indeed about 5 dependencies packages or even more that need to be improved to support MinGW.
It is possible but this would require improve existing portfiles, since just placing
In TL;DR xrepo often increase Github CI workers count which check different platforms, package portfile is much more likely was created very much earlier rather than existing Github CI workers at that moment, were able to check different platforms build & usage, so it resulted some packages being about 3 years old & support only Windows/Linux/OS X platforms. So new PRs with adding some platform support for package often appear.
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Okay, I got it, thanks for the reply. |
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It is possible, but this would require to add MinGW platform support to GTK4 dependencies at first place.
That is indeed about 5 dependencies packages or even more that need to be improved to support MinGW.
It is possible but this would require improve existing portfiles, since just placing
on_install(mingwmuch more likely wont be enough to fix/support build on MinGW of some GTK4 dependencies.In TL;DR xrepo often increase …