Re: Running an exe .............

[Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart Vandewoestyne pandora be>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Well, you cannot distribute just the exe. You have to distribute all
> the dependencies, too.
>
> Unfortunately there isn't any generally agreed upon package
> distribution format/method for Windows. (Like rpm, dpkg on Linux,
> pkginstall on Solaris, etc.)
>
> There also aren't any generally agreed canonical Windows binary
> distributions for common low-level libraries like libpng, zlib
> etc. This means that you really cannot be sure whether a machine
> already has some of them installed or not, and what version it might
> be. I.e. the risk for DLL hell is always there, especially if
> misguided installers have installed stuff in the Windows system
> directory.

I can only agree on this.  In order to distribute my application in a 
form that allows it to run on Windows systems that don't have GTK+ 
installed, i simply started my application on such a system, looked at 
the errors for what .dll files it reported as missing, and just added 
those .dll's to the application directory.

I continued this until i got no more errors... this might not have been 
the fastest way to see which .dll's had to be shipped with the 
application, but it worked for me.

HTH,
Bart

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