Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> I have created some gtk exe's for win32 using gtk+ and mingw.What is the >> correct way to package the exe with the required DLL's? > > That is to some degree a question of taste and personal opinion... > >> Should I just send out exe file with dll's from bin? Or are end users meant >> to install gtk and add its bin to their system path? > > I would say that the current best practise is to produce a single > executable installer (either a single .exe or a single .msi) that > installs you application and the GTK+ stack (those parts that your > application needs) in the same, freely selectable, location. Many > people say, and I agree, that it is futile to try to use a shared > installation of GTK+ on Windows for applications from different 3rd > parties. > > For instance, do it like this: >
[excellent reply by Tor removed] For a concrete example of what Tor is suggesting see the win32 subdirectory in the pcb (pcb.sf.net) source tree. Also look at configure.ac for pcb. It's not really polished, but the "build_win32" script in there will build a non-cygwin version of pcb and create a windows installer using NSIS. The script is a wrapper around the autoconf build system and makes several assumptions about where some of the gtk for windows runtime stuff exists. There is also an 'extract_gtk_win32' script in there. The biggest difference between whats in pcb is that I didn't try to minimize which parts of gtk for win32 get installed. I just stuck in all the dll's. Hope this helps. -Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
