Re: Statically Linking GTK+ libraries with Win32 in MS VC++

[Hubert Sokolowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:58:36 -0400
"Matthew Yaconis" <myaconis nycap rr com> wrote:

> I've managed to port some libraries I've generated and a GTK+
> application from Linux to Windows XP, using MS Visual C++ 6.0. 
> However, being quite new to the MS Visual C++ and Win32 programming in
> general, in attempting to distribute the new windows application to
> some co-workers found out that my executable depends on at least the
> libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll, and as a result won't run on machines that
> don't have some of the distributions listed on Tor's website.  I
> thought I was linking statically with all the required libraries,
> allowing the executable to be moved from one Win32 box to another, but
> obviously I did something wrong.  
>
> Does anyone have some advice on how to specify static linking with
> GTK+ libraries in MS Visual C++ so the application can be run on most
> any workstation?  Or do I have to have some sort of installation so it
> will properly run?
AFAIK you can't link statically with a LGPL library unless you
distribute the sources as well with your program.


-- 
Hubert Sokolowski