Building viking for windows

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Viking is a mapping and gps application using the gtk+ ramework. I want to add APRS-support to it, so I first need to find out how to build it in windows, because that is my development platform. There are Windows binaries available, but I didn't find any documentation how to build them. So I will write down here what I find out.

I am going to try to build it under mingw, as that is what gimp uses, wich is also a gtk+ application.

Doing it

The GTK Site thankfully has everything required at http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php Just download one of the all in one bundles including the developer files, and extract it to c:/mingw/msys/1.0/.

That takes care of almost everything.