Re: Quick into to porting to Win32...

[Goran Rakic <gox devbase net>]

> - or install Jernej's gtk on your system, copy the tree of files under
> "Common Files/gtk/2.0/", rename as the name of your app, drop your
> .exe into the bin directory, zip up and send to your users ... they
> then run by unzipping, clicking into the bin/ folder and
> double-clicking on your .exe
>
>  
Some time ago I ported some GTK2 applications to Windows using MinGW, 
MSYS and dropline gnome packages. After installing GTK dev package you 
need to set PATH variable in MSYS so pkg-config and other utills can be 
called from shell. Then, install Runtime package and move gtk/ directory 
from Common Files to your application install path (like C:\Program 
Files\your_app\GUI for example).

After that you need to create registry keys to configure library path 
for your application:
In HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths create 
folder or whatever called your_app.exe. In it, create one key called 
Path and set its value to path to the GTK library (like C:\Program 
Files\your_app\GUI\2.2\lib).

Now compile your application with mingw and msys and move it to 
C:\Program Files\your_app\your_app.exe.

You can use ISSTool to create fancy installer that can install 
application and create registry keys for you.

Bye,
Goran Rakic