Re: Best practice for bundling GTK with an windows application?

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Oops. Make that:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/

Regards,
Dov

2009/7/11 Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>

> I've been doing cross platform development and windows installer during the
> last few years of lots of C/C++ programs. Here is an outline of my
> practices:
>
>    - Build done through scons.
>    - Special scons rules for doing cross compilation for Windows from
>    Linux.
>    - Use NSIS for Windows installer deployment. (cross compiled mingw32
>    version of nsis used).
>    - The Windows installer is self contained, i.e. it is not dependent on
>    the installation of a separate gtk installation.
>    - The windows binaries are the standard compiled binaries from
>    ftp.gtk.org
>    - Testing done through a WinXP installation under VirtualBox.
>
> See the SConstruct and NSIS files of my two programs giv and gemtcl for
> examples of how to do the above.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> 2009/7/11 Hartmut Goebel <h goebel goebel-consult de>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently working to make setting up a Python application
>> (www.tryton.org) easier for Windows users. Meanwhile I'm totally
>> confused about which package of bundle to use and what to put into the
>> installer package.
>>
>> Now GTK for Windows comes in quite a lot of flavours. Since Tryton uses
>> pygtk & Co., we only need the runtime environment, no developer files.
>> But there are still some options left:
>> - zipped runtime bundle including 3rd-party dependencies.
>> - zipped archives for individual packages (glib, gtk+, pango, ...)
>> - installer from glade-win32 somewhat outdated, but including librsvg
>>  <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gladewin32/files/>
>> - installer from <http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/>: much more up to date
>>  but missing librsvg and libbz2
>>
>> Which one should I use? Is there some agreed best practice?
>>
>> I'm currently tending to this solution:
>> * use the installer from gtk-win for the development environment
>> * put additional .dlls (e.g. librsvg) into the development directory
>> * include the whole gtk-win installer into the Tryton installer.
>>
>> Any comments or suggestions anyone?
>>
>> --
>> Schönen Gruß - Regards
>> Hartmut Goebel
>> Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP
>>
>> Goebel Consult
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>>
>>
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