On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Atallah wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package
>> > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html ) has reverted to a
>> > monolithic build, so that a gtk app won't start without having the
>> > tiff and jpeg libraries installed, even if they're never used.
>>
>> The reason for this change is that the 2.14.x series uses a new GDI+
>> based loader instead of the previous loaders.
>
> OK, thanks for the info.
>
>> If you run dependency walker on libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll, you'll see
>> that it doesn't depend on the various external libraries.
>
> Hmm, but I've tried it on Windows XP: when I use the GTK 2.14.4
> package my GTK app won't start without jpeg62.dll.

Oh, weird.  You're right.  I guess I'm confused as to how the new
situation works.
I just ran the dependency walker and it is different than I thought it
was; someone more clueful than me will have to clarify.

-D
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