Re: Deploying GTK on win

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 Carlo:

 Thanks for the reply - I will play with NSIS installer. I remember playing
with  inno setup and could not figure out how to create a batch file during
installation.

  I was thinking about creating a file such as:

  startup.bat.in
========
   PATH=%PATH; @INSTALLDIR@/gtk-2.0/bin; @INTALLDIR@/myapp/bin ...and the other
paths to the DLLs..
   myapp.exe  <my args>
=========

 When intalled:
 startup.bat
  PATH=%PATH; C:\somedir\gtk-2.0... ans so forth.
  myapp.exe  <my args>


  First, I could not figure out how to "replace" var on a file using Inno setup
-- I was not app to learning Pascal :P)

  Second, I do not know if using this approach, the "black window", console,
win terminal, DOS console - or whatever it is called these days, will be open.

 Thanks again for the info.




  
  




--- Carlo <carlo-ag libero it> wrote:

> 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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