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Writing Tiny Desktop Apps in C and GTK3 (2022)


INY Desktop Apps in C and GTK3 Jan 15 2022 So you finish up your C/C++ backend, and open up the Electron.js documentation to figure out how to make a quick frontend... NO!! You'd better not dare write your desktop application in HTML.

So you finish up your C/C++ backend, and open up the Electron.js documentation to figure out how to make a quick frontend... And now, for my final trick: Easy cross compilation for Windows. Thanks to some archive scouring and msys2 ripping over at my windows-gtk repository, I figured out how to make GTK cross compilation actually not a nightmare.

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