Re: Suggest a lightweight GUI toolkit (X11)

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@...>]

On 6/21/10, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:00:54 +0200
> Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Includes bindings for GTK+ and more (e.g. WebKiyGtk, Cairo, Pango).
>> > Build as much or as little of the Lua-to-GObject-based binding as
>> > you need.
>>
>> I (finally) got it built last weekend
>
> Care to include your workings?  I'm told there's some form of script
> for doing it rather than a broken Makefile now, but I've still heard
> horror stories and I won't go close to it until I'm absolutely
> convinced it won't make me want to pour bleach into my eyeballs again :)

There are makefiles in each subdir. They kinda work but assumes you
install them in correct order.

The buildscript I use for Alpine Linux:
http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/testing/lua-lgob/APKBUILD

>> but got scared away by the fact that the .so for gtk binding is 500k.
>
> Before or after stripping?  I suspect it statically creates bindings
> to /everything/ rather than trying to do so dynamically, which might
> make it a bit fat.

After stripping.

Other than that it actually looks pretty good.

-- 
Natanael Copa