Re: static linking on mingw/msys

[Martin Schmeißer <schmeissermartin gmail com>]

Am Samstag, den 14.10.2006, 14:06 +0300 schrieb Tor Lillqvist:
> Martin Schmeisser writes:
>  > Hehe, darn, thats why.  So is there a way to find out what dlls it linked
>  > againts?
>
> Of course there is, "link -dump -imports" or "objdump -p". But recall
> that GTK+ also loads DLLs dynamically (gdk-pixbuf loaders mainly, but
> also theme engines for instance). It also reads configuration files
> which it expects to be in the installation tree at certain fixed
> locations relative to the installation folder's root.
>
>  > I dont want my dad to intall the gtk runtime on about 20 boxes he
>  > is going to use this app on,
>
> That's like saying "I want my app to use GTK+ but I don't want to use
> GTK+".
:-) Its more like "I want my app to use GTK+ because i hate and dont
know winapi but HE doesnt want it to use gtk" but yeah, if i put the
runtime tree in a zip he wont complain.
> What's so hard in making one zip archive containing the tree that will
> have to be "installed" (unzipped) on the end-user machines?
>
> You will need the gtk runtime. (And its run-time dependencies,
> i.e. libpng, zlib. pango, cairo, glib, gettext, libiconv. Did I recall
> all?) But you don't necessarily need *all* of it. If your app is in
> English also (and your users), you can leave out the entire lib\locale
> subtree, for instance. You can leave out those gdk-pixbuf loaders that
> you don't need. (Most probably, you will only need the png loader, for
> instance.) You can leave out the pangoft2 DLL.
>
> (Note that the recent Pango Win32 builds have the Pango shaper modules
> built-in into the DLLs, i.e. in Pango's case there are now less
> run-time files needed, the modules aren't loaded at run-time any
> longer.)
>
>  > so maybe i can just put the dlls in the same folder as the binary?
>
> It's better to see it the other way; put your app exe is the same
> folder as the DLLs. What you should *not* do is move the GTK+ DLLs in
> relation to the other files from the GTK+ runtime that they need.

thanks alot for all the clarifications! i'll see if i can shove
everything together to make things work with the least installation
effort.

grettings, Martin