Re: Quick into to porting to Win32...

[Goran Rakic <gox devbase net>]

John Cupitt wrote:

> Do you really need to do this? If you put your_app.exe in the same
> folder as the gtk .dlls (and as part of the tree of files including
> /etc and /share) then I think they will link and then discover their
> data files automatically. I distribute an app this way and have a full
> gtk environment, including themes, fontconfig, i18n etc. with no
> registry keys and no installer. It'll even run directly off a USB
> keyring.
>
> The downside is that users can't move the .exe outside the tree of
> files. But they can make shortcuts to it if they want.
>  
Yes, you can put your exe in GTK's lib directory, but that is not a 
logic place to keep executables.

If you donot want to create registry keys, you can set StartIn path in 
shortcut to your application to
GTK's lib directory. Also, you can install GTK in Common Files and add 
lib directory path to
your PATH enviroment variable (Right click on My Computer and so on, if 
I am not wrong about that)

Goran Rakic