Re: EuGTK
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Sep 27, 2023
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Is there any way in which we can get a win64Lib off the ground?
I'd be happy to help in any way I can.
You'd have to lead the project.
When David Cuny started this decades ago, he also created a dos32lib to go with it. There was also a refactor of win32lib called Llama/Win32 which was paired with a GTK port called Llama/GTK.
But then Derek Parnell took it over and refused to go multiplatform with it. (In fairness, it is in the name.)
That said, in one sense it might not as hard as it looks. You'd not have to do a rewrite from scratch, you'd simply have to look at where win32lib has 32bit expectations hardcoded and update those to work in a 64bit world (e.g. with regards to pointer sizes, etc). A helpful example might be at https://openeuphoria.org/forum/138066.wc#138066
Some good news for you though, we now have the latest version of EuGTK recovered, see https://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/138030.wc - so you should be able to get that working on 64bit windoze now.
