Re: Determining if GTK is installed

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br>]

Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 22:21, David Vandepol wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> >       I am working on an installer that prereqs GTK, I was wondering if
> > there was a known algorithm for determining whether GTK is installed on the
> > system, and what the level is.  Also is there a different way to do this
> > depending on the OS.
> >     
>
> On unix-like OSs there is pkg-config (and if you use autoconf, the autoconf 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro).  I do not know about Windows.  To detect the 
> version at compile time see the C preprocessor macros in the gtkversion.h 
> header file.
>
>   
On Windows, you can look at HKLM\Software\GTK\2.0 . The runtime
installers generally add entries to the registry. But that's no guarantee.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
ekalin bol com br
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