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Was looking for something like this some years back. Though I wanted Windows support too. Ended up switching to C++ to use wxWidgets, giving me small self contained binaries.
Self-contained Spot "Hello World" is 2.3MiB on my Mac. Not pretty, but works for me.
Cool! What does building for cross platform look like? Would love if there was a command that produced my MacOs .app and Windows exe without me having to dive into package management/containers/signing headaches per platform.
The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating systems, signing/notarization tools, etc. :(
I swear half the electron apps use it for ease of Xplatform build.
I’d love something like this for giving my CLIs UIs.
If someone implements GTK I would absolutely use it, its just fltk is no fun in Linux world
Cool! What does building for cross platform look like? Would love if there was a command that produced my MacOs .app and Windows exe without me having to dive into package management/containers/signing headaches per platform.
The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating systems, signing/notarization tools, etc. :(
For macOS you need signing/notarization tools either when building natively or when cross-compiling, it's not any different. `rcodesign` has made this process much easier in recent years.
Was looking for something like this some years back. Though I wanted Windows support too. Ended up switching to C++ to use wxWidgets, giving me small self contained binaries.
For a native toolkit, I was impressed to see FLTK supports Ctrl-+ and Ctrl+- to zoom the entire application like a browser. And https://github.com/fltk-rs/fltk-theme?tab=readme-ov-file#wid... really improved my impression of how "native" FLTK can be made to look.
On a related note, I discovered GoVCL https://z-kit.cc/en/ recently and am interested to try it out.
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The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating systems, signing/notarization tools, etc. :(
You can cross-compile Cgo, you "just" need a C compiler and linker that works for the target platform. osxcross, xgo have some or maybe you can set CC=zig cc. For macOS you need signing/notarization tools either when building natively or when cross-compiling, it's not any different. `rcodesign` has made this process much easier in recent years.
If only I had known about this (or judging by commit history, if it existed) ~3 weeks ago. I've been saying for ages that either React ported to Go or a React-like framework for Go would be an incredible development experience, so this looks perfect (I used to be a big hater of React.js until I was enlightened by React.lua).
If only I had known about this (or judging by commit history, if it existed) ~3 weeks ago. I've been saying for ages that either React ported to Go or a React-like framework for Go would be an incredible development experience, so this looks perfect (I used to be a big hater of React.js until I was enlightened by React.lua).
Don't leave us hanging! What did you use instead 3 weeks ago?
Wails is still pretty epic as well though.