Re: svg pixbuf loader on Windows

[Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net>]

> The Windows binaries for the svg gdk-pixbuf loader are in the
> svg-gdk-pixbuf-loader package. The currently latest version is at
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/librsvg/2.22/svg-gdk-pixbuf-loader-2.22.2.zip.
> It requires the librsvg DLL, in the librsvg package in the same
> folder.  And the librsvg DLL then requires libcroco and libgsf. The
> libcroco DLL then again requires the libxml2 DLL, and the libgsf DLL
> requires the bzip2 and zlib DLLs. Finding those are left as an
> exercise to the reader. They are in hopefully logical locations on the
> same site. Note that in particular, binaries for stuff not directly
> part of the GNOME and GTK+ stack is in ../../dependencies. Please
> follow up if you find that something is missing...
Thanks for this. I think I have the stuff and I think I have poked it in
the right places, but so far no joy. The gdk-pixbuf.loaders file in the
directory below c:/program files/Denemo seems to be ignored. 

With another program that loads .gif images, if I hide the
gdk-pixbuf.loaders file, the program says that it is missing (on the
console). But I can hide it in the Denemo tree and I get no complaint. I
am not sure that Denemo needs other pixbuf loaders (are the standard gtk
icons loaded with one?). In any case the contents of the
gdk-pixbuf.loaders file looks suspicious, entries like 

"c:/devel/target/gtk
+-2.8.9/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.dll"

/devel is not (never has been) a path on my windows partition.

Finally, (if I am not trying your patience too far) do I need to be
worrying about 2.4.0 versus 2.10.0, or will it be happy at runtime with
anything it finds below gtk-2.0? I ask because all the earlier pixbuf
loaders had a different naming convention (libpixbufloader-gif.dll while
the svg one was just svg_loader.dll), but perhaps this is because it
doesn't belong in the GTK+ stack.

Thanks again for your help
Richard Shann