There are still issues, particularly with Gtk which has to be tightly integrated into the Windows GUI APIs, but it pretty much works. The AIO uses the MSYS/MINGW environment which basically emulates Linux and as a result, can much more easily compile apps and libraries. I’m not sure if it was lack of some critical library or what… Anaconda seems to be built this way. ![]() But more importantly, no one who has attempted it has been able to successfully port Gramps to that environment. ![]() I no longer have that access, and don’t feel like paying for it myself. Unfortunately, the developer has to have those compilers (and at one time when I worked, my company paid big bucks to allow me access to those). ![]() There are several ways that apps can be adapted to run under Windows I think they all depend on recompiling for the specific tools and libraries of the ‘way’.ĭue to MSoft, the Visual Studio compilers and associated libraries are one of the common ways of building apps. Gramps was originally developed for Linux, and depends on libraries that are commonly available there.
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