gtk win32 and env variables

[Dan McMahill <mcmahill mtl mit edu>]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right list or not for this question.

I have a gtk+ app developed for NetBSD/Linux/Solaris.  I just ported it 
to windows with almost no pain thanks to gtk for win32.  I even made an 
installer with NSIS.  The problem I have though is that my program has 2 
directories where it looks for some system data files at runtime.  One 
of the ways it can find these directories is through the use of 2 
environment variables.  On a unix like system, those variables are 
usually not needed because a default path is put into the binary at 
compile time based on the configure options.  On windows, it is easy for 
the user to pick a different place to install so I need to set those 
variables.

So my question is how do gtk apps ported to windows typically deal with 
something like that?  Do I try and make the installer set some windows 
environmnet variables?  Do I use some registry thing?  Is that even 
supported in glib/gtk for win32?  I'm really not a windows user at all, 
but know of a number of people interested in using my program on windows.

Thanks for any suggestions.
-Dan