Re: Running on Windows?

[jcupitt gmail com]

2008/12/19 lwhmellow <lwhmellow 126 com>:
> So,please,does anyone have ideas about packing all the files together.I mean
> if I can just put all the files together,and then zip it,hand it to my
> teacher so that he can view the application anywhere?

Sure, it's pretty easy.

The gtk runtime installs to "c:\program files\gtk2" (or does it? I
forget). Just copy that whole tree somewhere new (eg. "c:\program
files\myapp"), copy the .exe for your program into  "c:\program
files\myapp\bin", then zip everything up.

To run it on another computer, unzip anywhere (eg. to the desktop as
"c:\docs and settings\me\Desktop\myapp"), open the myapp\bin folder,
and doubleclick on myapp.exe.

If you want to get fancy you can fiddle with the theme and maybe make
a tiny installer. Also remember that myapp.exe will stop working if
you take it out of the \bin folder, though you can make a shortcut to
it.

Finally, make sure you test it on a couple of machines before handing
the zip to your teacher, heh.

J