Re: How to create a self contained GTK+ Application for Linux

[Alan Lake <alan lake lakeinfoworks com>]

Here are a couple of off-beat suggestions:
   1. I write in Ruby, so I am able to use RubyScript2exe.rb to create 
a self-contained GTK+ application.
   2. If your users can run virtual machines such as VMware, you can 
give them your app in a virtual machine that runs a later version of Linux.
   3. Have your users run a version of Linux compatible with your app 
from a bootable CD (Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc.)

BTW, Tor, I'm an American living with his Finnish wife in Ryttylä, Finland.

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Jeremy Roberson writes:
>  > So, I copied all of the shared libraries into a sub directory of
>  > the application directory called "lib/" for testing.
>
> But GTK+ and Pango also look for various other files at run-time. It's
> not just the shared libraries that are needed.
>
> The pathnames of these other files have been compiled in hardcoded in
> the shared libraries. Some functionality will not work of these files
> are not found then at run-time. If the compiled-in pathnames happen to
> match those of an existing older GTK+ installation already on the
> machine, things might still work, or then not.
>
> Off the top of my head, one obvious thing that will depend on run-time
> opening of files is the gdk-pixbuf loaders. Plus message catalogs, of
> course, but maybe American English is enough for all your users?
>
> --tml
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