Re: Fwd: Plans for GTK+ Bundles for win32 and win64?

[Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>]

> Note that many of us build programs with MinGW, so for such suite to be
> useful, it should provide GCC-compatible import libraries.
If MinGW can't use standard microsoft import libraries that (from my 
perspective) is Someone Else's Problem. The entire set of libraries 
compiles easily enough on MinGW I am not concerning myself with it. The 
VAST majority of Windows developers use the Microsoft tools. Some people 
from a Linux background prefer the familiarity of MinGW but they are a 
fraction of the Windows development audience. A TINY fraction. However i 
suspect someone has written a .lib to .a converter somewhere and theres no 
reason that can't be run against whatever the MS tools produce.

> What happens when eg. Gimp links to glib228.dll, and then the user
> downloads a plugin linked with earlier version of glib?
How is that any different on Windows than any other OS? Also, if its linked 
against glib227.dll they can just have that installed too. Also, one would 
HOPE that glib228 is a superset of glib227 or any previous version so even 
if we named the DLL's a bit less specifically (and just used, for example, 
glib2.dll) that still shouldn't be a problem. As long as glib2.dll remains 
ABI compatible and doesn't allow an older version to install over a newer 
versions I don't see a problem?

Kean