The Win32 port of GTk+ is a work in progress, and not as stable or correct as the Unix/X11 version. For more information about the Win32 port, see http://www.gimp.org/tml/gimp/win32/ or http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/ . To build GTk+ on Win32, you need either Microsoft compiler and tools, or egcs-1.1.2 running under cygwin-b20.1. Compile in gdk\win32 and gtk with `nmake -f makefile.msc` or `make -f makefile.cygwin`. Before doing a install, check the BIN definition in gdk\win32\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin) and gtk\makefile.msc (or makefile.cygwin). See the README.win32 file in the GLib distribution for preparations to build with egcs on cygwin. The tablet support uses the Wintab API. The Wintab development kit can be downloaded from http://www.pointing.com. GTk+ wants to be built with the GNU gettext library for internationalisation (i18n). Get the version ported to Win32 (not a very big deal) from tml's web site mentioned above. If you don't want any i18n stuff, undefine ENABLE_NLS, HAVE_GETTEXT and HAVE_LIBINTL in the config.h.win32 file, and remove references to the gnu-intl library from the makefiles.