After a little bit of hacking, I’ve succeeded in getting GNOME Colorscheme to run under windows XP. I had to hack a few things to get it to build, and it’s still not perfect. For instance, in addition to making gconf optional, I made libgnomeui optional as well. The end result is that it doesn’t have quite the functionality available on linux, but it’s still relatively useable.

I haven’t yet committed the changes I had to make to get it to work, but will soon. If you want to try it out, you should install gtkmm 2.8 with Cedric’s Windows gtkmm installer (the developer environment, not just the runtime), and also install MinGW, and the autotools from cygwin. You’ll have to use the following commandline for now:

./configure --disable-gconf --disable-gnomeui --datadir="c:\some\path\to\install\icons\etc"

By the way, that last little --datadir switch feels really ugly to me. Does anybody know how people usually do this stuff on windows? I’d prefer to use autoconf and automake on Windows, but doing so results in a datadir variable set to something like /usr/local/share, which is valid within a cygwin shell, but obviously not when running the compiled program outside of cygwin. I’ve worked around this by specifying an explicit datadir, but if feels like there should be a better way… Anybody?