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steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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'd imagine that Raspbian (the hard-float rebuild) uses GTK for its desktop)
>
> I'd be happy if someone makes IUP easier to build ;)

AIUI, both wxwidgets and IUP are "adaption" layers, and rely on an
underlying GUI library -- like GTK -- to actually do the real work.

On unix-like systems they both _use_ GTK, so they're going to be
heavier than GTK, almost by definition...

-miles

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