Re: gtk 2.8 on Windows 98

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 08:48 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> Just wanted to check: is the statement by Tor Lillqvist at
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878
>
> the "last word" on this issue?  (The issue concerns gtk, cairo, 
> and fonts on win98.)  Tor says -- or rather, asks:
>
> "[W]hat this bug actually means is that GTK+ 2.8.* doesn't run 
> on Win9x? (Which is known and more or less by design, but not 
> really advertised.)"
>
> I have a report from a user of my gtk app on win98 (in Polish) 
> with a screenshot showing all glyphs in menus as little boxes. 
> I recently updated to gtk 2.8.18 from 2.4.X.  I'm wondering 
> whether I need to backdate to an earlier gtk version to support 
> win98, or if there's any workaround?

I think only versions up to 2.6 are supported in windows 98.  

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