not a GTK-based solution, but are you familiar with Docker?  it solves
these problems for you and more.

you will never worry about having to satisfy run-time dependencies on the
target platform ever again.  well, everything except needing a docker
engine, that is.

richard

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Ian Chapman <ichap...@videotron.ca> wrote:

> Gtk3 portability
>
> Hi, I have made a Linux gtk3 program and have it running on my Debian Mint
> AMD64 machine.
>
> I mistakenly thought that the program file (binary file) held all that was
> needed to run.
>
> I moved the program file to a newly installed Mint 18.1 and ran into a few
> difficulties.
>
> 1. I had to install libsdl2 to get over the first hick.
>
> 2. My program was looking for libglew.so.1.10 but what was in the
> repository was 1.13 obviously a slightly later version.
>
> 3. I overcame hick 2 by pulling over C++ and gtk3 and recompiling from
> source.
>
> Maybe you guys and gals can give me a few pointers so that I can generate
> the program file (binary file) without all the above hassle? Regards Ian.
>
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