Re: Suggest a lightweight GUI toolkit (X11)

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:48:57 -0700
> "Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
>
> > I **heartily** suggest [IUPLua](http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/).
> > It has a very Lua-like design, and works across Windows, GTK, and
> > Motif, so you can be pretty sure your application will work on any
> > operating system, Unix or otherwise, in use today.
>
> Has anybody worked out how to build this without ripping out your own
> hair yet, though?  WxLua is similar.  lgob (a Lua->GObject binding)
> used to be an exercise in pain to build, but I'm told it's much better
> now (but it will still make you unhappy.)

I have designed my own build framework for Lua, LuaFilesystem, LuaSocket
and IUP. It builds for Linux, cross compiles on Linux for MinGW, and
I think it still works for BSD (not tested recently)

If there's enough interest I may start a GitHub project for that.

Ralph