Re: Raspberry Pi and Lua

[Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:46 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Bogdan Marinescu
> <bogdan.marinescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> that wxWidgets might be a bit too "heavy" for RPi, almost on par with
>> Qt or GTK. IUP, on the other hand ... I'm still looking at this, but
>> I'd be very happy to hear what other people think.
>
> Is GTK so heavy? _Particularly_ if the rest of the desktop leans on
> it, so that the libraries are usually loaded.

I'm not sure that the "standard" (raspberrypi.org) RPi distribution
uses GTK (and can't check right now). But this is a valid point.

>
> (I'd imagine that Raspbian (the hard-float rebuild) uses GTK for its desktop)

Will definitely check this today.

>
> I'd be happy if someone makes IUP easier to build ;)

+1.

Best,
Bogdan

>
> steve d.
>