Re: gtkmm bundle for win32 broken

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 12:26 -0400, Damon Register wrote:
> I have installed gtkmm-win32-devel-2.16.0-1.exe from
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.16/
> I am attempting to build glade3-3.6.0 using msys/mingw.
> After fixing a few small glade bugs, I am able to build and run
> glade but there is a problem: all the incons are just a red X and
> I get errors like this one
> 
> (glade-3.exe:284): GladeUI-CRITICAL **: Unable to load image (Unable to load image-loading module:
>   c:\gtkmm/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.dll:
>   `c:\gtkmm/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.dll': The specified module could not be 
> found.)
> 
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkScaleButton::size
> GladeUI-Message: No displayable values for property GtkImage::icon-size
> 
> After checking this and other lists and a bit of googling, I find that
> this is part of gtk and I therefore conclude that this should exist somewhere
> in the gtkmm bundle.  Is that a correct conclusion?  If this is correct,
> does this mean that the gtkmm bundle is broken?  If this is not correct,
> can anyone tell me how I can get the missing modules?

Yes, the pixbuf loaders are part of GTK+. They have been statically
linked before, which is probably why the installer is missing them. I
fixed the problem with a new installer:

ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.16/gtkmm-win32-devel-2.16.0-2.exe

Thanks for reporting this,

Armin