Re: Portability and distribution with Gtk+ 1.3



On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:23:56PM +0200, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
> > And, in not a single instance, has anyone had any problems that I am
> > aware of with the portability of libpng or zlib.  
> 
> Yes, but I guess that you are using libpng (and therefore zlib) in a
> static way, while gdk-pixbuf uses it in a very dynamic (using dlopen) way.

This is certainly true, and I pity the people who have to make dynamic
loading work on lots of platforms.  Not that that means we haven't
already started working on it for abiword.  :)

> 
> > So you might want to revise your estimates.
> 
> I'd be happy to do so but I doubt it, unless I am not looking at the right
> zlib package, where do you get zlib from ?

Well, you can see the version abiword uses in our cvs tree.  For
instructions, see http://www.abisource.com/dev_download.phtml
           
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