Re: Is it possible to put all necessary GTK runtime files in a single directory

[HuamiSoft Hubert Sokolowski <h sokolowski huamisoft com>]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:58:32 -0500
Douglas Vechinski <douglas vechinski dynetics com> wrote:

> I have a GTK application that I'm porting to run under Windows.  This 
> application is part of  a package that has several other native Windows 
> (non-GTK) executables all of which are to reside in a "bin" directory.  
> The wish, desire, command of the project leader for this project would 
> like every file/dll to also reside in this "bin" directory or possibly 
> sub-directory.   (Certain configuration files may reside in a sibling 
> directory (relative to bin) with a certain fixed name.  He also does not 
> want to have to modify the PATH environment variable.
>
> At present I have copied all the .dll files (no .exe files) from 
> gtk+\bin to our bin directory.   I copied the gtk+\etc directory to etc 
> so that it is a sibling to our bin directory.   The app also seems to 
> need some dll's located in the gtk+\lib\pango\version\modules 
> directory.  If I copy these over to our bin I still get some pango error 
> message  or assertion from "shape.c"    If I copied these dll's to a 
> lib\pango\version\modules directory so that lib is a sibling to our bin 
> directory the GTK app seems to run.  Is it possible to put and/or modify 
> the files from the etc and lib\pango\version\modules directories into 
> the bin directory so that the  GTK app is happy if it is started within 
> the bin directory? 
what happens when you install gtk dll's in bin/bin/ and your exe program
in bin/ ? the rest is in bin/etc/, bin/lib/ etc.