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I have a C++ program which uses Gtk, and I would like to compile a Windows version of it. I would like as many of these features as possible:

1) I'd like to compile a native Windows binary, not something which needs an emulation framework around it. (I'm told mingw can do this? However, I would need more details on how to compile gtk programs with it.)

2) I'd like for the program to be a stand-alone binary without the need for the user to install Gtk in his system just to run my program. If necessary, it would be ok if there would have to be one or a few .dll files in the same directory as the executable. In other words, I would like for the program to be just one exe file and possibly one or a few dll files in a directory, and the exe file could be run directly, without the need to install anything in the system.

3) I would prefer being able to compile the Windows binary from Linux. In other words, it would be great if I didn't have to boot to Windows every time I want to compile the Windows binary for the program. (Someone has told me that this should be possible with the Linux version of mingw, but I lack details.) I would really like to not to have to install any mingw/gtk/whatever developement environments in Windows; I would like to do all the developement in Linux.

Is this possible, and if yes, how exactly?

Yes, This is completely possible. I write such applications. This is my work.
You can even write and compile the windoze version of the program without to leave linux.The built exe is ready to use on windoze.
Just download and install MinGW environment and the GTK+ runtime environment for windoze.
If you use Fedora just install these RPMs for MinGW. http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/
Then install this self-extract package.
http://www.nhydra.org/files/GTK%20Platform%20Win32-1.0-Linux-x86-Install
There is available some installers on this address http://www.nhydra.org/ for GTK and MinGW on both Windoze and Linux

And then use this script to compile and build your GTK+ Win32 Application.

#!/bin/sh

EXEC_COMMAND="i386-mingw32-gcc"

# Base GTK Platform install path
GTK_BASE_PATH="/home/work_user/gtk-win32-platform"

# GTK Binary directory
GTK_BIN_DIR="base"

#GTK development directory
GTK_DEV_DIR="base-dev"

# Execute the compiling
echo "Additional source files: $@"

$EXEC_COMMAND main.c callbacks.c interface.c support.c $@ \
-o gtk-win32-out.exe \
-mms-bitfields \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/ \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/atk-1.0 \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/cairo \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/freetype2 \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/glib-2.0 \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/lib/glib-2.0/include \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/gtk-2.0 \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/lib/gtk-2.0/include \
-I$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/include/pango-1.0 \
-L$GTK_BASE_PATH/$GTK_DEV_DIR/lib \
-latk-1.0 \
-lcairo \
-lfreetype \
-lgettextpo \
-lgtk-win32-2.0 \
-lglib-2.0 \
-lgdk-win32-2.0 \
-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 \
-lgobject-2.0 \
-lgmodule-2.0 \
-lgthread-2.0 \
-lpango-1.0 \
-lzdll


If you need more particular information just PM me... I am very interested for developing GTK+ apps on both Windoze and Linux so I will be very glad to contact you.
I am wondering about creating of such user group...

There doesn't seem to be a C++ compiler there, only C.