Re: Win32 binaries for GTK+ 2.4.9

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le mer 08/09/2004 à 00:59, Michael L Torrie a écrit :
> On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:33, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Jared Kells writes:
> >  > Is there a common instalation path for gtk on win32
> > 
> > Not really, nor should there be. Different sites/people have widely
> > varying conventions/needs. Home users typically have just one hard
> > drive "C:". But some machines (like mine, for instance) don't have any
> > "C:" drive at all. Larger installations want the stuff on a network
> > drive. Folders like "Program Files" have localized names on
> > non-English Windows machines. Etc.
> 
> I suppose the situation under Windows is more complicated than under
> linux (no standard places for libraries,etc). 

Actually under Windows there are registry entries for every standard
directory ("Program Files", etc.) so the installer can find them
regardless of localization when it's well-behaved.

(Disclaimer: I learnt that with Wine, so it may not apply to all Windows
versions)

	Xav