Re: Deploying GTK on win

[Carlo <carlo-ag libero it>]

Harring Figueiredo ha scritto lo scorso 23/12/2004 0.11:
>  This is mainly for Tor and Allin, but others with experience is, of course,
> more than welcome to reply.
>
>  What is the model you guys use to deploy on Windows -- By this I mean - When
> creating a distribution with an installer, how to we set up so that the libs
> are found correclty. I am trying to avoid using REGISTRY stuff for this and
> also trying to avoid putting the GTK and my libs on the  WIN golder.
There are 2 ways to make your GTK apps running: the former is "the fast 
way", the latter is a more elegant and efficient one.

The fast way consists in simply bundling all GTK dlls together with your 
app, but this means that you must copy and copy again all GTK stuff for 
each application installed on one machine. Moreover, it is not possible 
to use themes (or maybe I have not deeply explored this possibility).

The efficient way consists in reproducing a full GTK runtime directory 
structure in traget machine's $COMMONFILES (thanks to NSIS :-) ) directory:

$COMMONFILES
           +\GTK
               +\2.0
                  +\bin
                  +\etc
                  +\lib
                  +\share

The directory share contains all theme subdirs, and you can switch 
between them by changing the .gtkrc-2.0 file located in users' profile 
directory (this file will contain following line:

include "C:/Programmi/File 
Comuni/GTK/2.0/share/themes/your_favourite_theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc")

This is exactly what the GIMP does and it requires following registry 
entries:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\GTK\2.0
            - DllPath (REG_SZ) "C:\Programmi\File comuni\GTK\2.0"
            - Path    (REG_SZ) "C:\Programmi\File comuni\GTK\2.0"
            - Version (REG_SZ) "2.4.13"

in addition with:
path=%path%;C:\Programmi\File comuni\GTK\2.0

(here I have substituted my own common files directory to the NSIS 
variable $COMMONFILES).

I have experienced that without the registry keys GTK applications 
continue to work, but the path entry is mandatory.


> I believe GIMP is a great example, unfortunately I could not find the
> installer set up stuff.

gimp-win.sourceforge.net

>  Thanks for any help.
>
> Harring.
>
>
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