Hey John, you can have a look at msys2 to see how gdk-pixbuf is built with static loaders. https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gdk-pixbuf2
Cheers. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, John Emmas <john...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > I build the Windows version of our product (Mixbus) which utilises both > pango and gdk-pixbuf. Each library contains various 'modules' and for many > years I've been building them as externally loadable DLLs (i.e. pango > modules and gdk-pixbuf loaders). We use the usual text files to tell > Mixbus where to find them. Unfortunately, this can be inconvenient on > Windows because it isn't always easy to predict where Windows will install > them (for example, lots of Windows users don't even have a C: drive). > > A few weeks ago I discovered that it's possible to build pango's modules > as static libs and link them to pango statically. This was a big step > forward for us and it was mostly just a case of reconfiguring my MSVC > projects and #defining PANGO_MODULE_PREFIX in a few places. > > Is it possible to do the same thing with gdk-pixbuf (i.e. link statically > to the various pixbuf loaders)? If so, is it similarly easy and/or are > there any instructions anywhere that I could refer to? Many thanks, > > John > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > -- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro
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