Re: Is GTK+ a cross-platform toolkit ?

[Marcelo Caetano <marcelo caetano titansgroup com br>]

I always worked with gtk2+ bundles in win32, yes, it was a big mess. but I always shipped the dlls into my 
application directory instead system32 directory.
compiling gtk+ in windows is almost a torture, (i've done it several times.)
oabuild barely works, 
and many times I had to build all dependencies myself.
the best solution I got to distribute my windows application with gtk was installing gimp-win32 and robering 
its dlls for mine applications.
because every new bundle was a pain.

I totally agree that a zip would be better than a installer.
and I could make some patches in my rare spare time to help improve gtk on windows too if there was a build 
system mingw based helping test the bundle.

most of times when the gtk2+ things was going wrong on windows i had to hack and workaround all the mess 
using win32 directly because it was very hard to make the gtk+ and test the modifications.

+1

Em 05/03/2013, às 02:51, Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com> escreveu:

> On 03/04/2013 06:03 PM, tarnyko tarnyko net wrote:
> > (We're speaking policy here, but to support my point in technical terms :
> > - my reusable GTK+3 build environment : 
> > http://www.tarnyko.net/repo/gtk3_build_system/ ;
> > - sample bundle I have produced : http://www.tarnyko.net/en/?q=node/20) 
>
> So an officially-produced (or sanctioned) .zip file of GTK3 binaries
> would be useful.  However, a runtime installer would not be.  On Windows
> you should always ship the GTK binaries with your own executable.  In
> fact that's how the DLLs are designed to work on the Windows build of
> GTK.  Put the DLLs in the directory as your binary, and put all the
> support directories underneath this directory (lib, share, etc).
>
> Years ago there were gtk runtime installers out and abotu and it was a
> right mess.  Some apps would find it and run, others wouldn't.  A new
> app would want to install a new runtime, and it would clobber the
> existing install, breaking existing apps.  The maintainer at the time
> rightly refused to get involved with this runtime installer nonsense,
> and continued to provide official zip files, which were very much
> appreciated.  Unfortunately, he had to move on and apply his time to
> other efforts in his life.
>
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