Re: Building and packaging for Windows

["Tor Lillqvist" <tml iki fi>]

> GTK is usually already installed with GIMP;

Presumably not everyone is interested in installing GIMP just to get a
copy of GTK+.

> if not, the packages are on
> http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/old.html

That "old" should tell you that the versions there are already
obsolete, and will become increasingly so. Nowadays the GIMP installer
bundles the GTK+ runtime and dependencies, so it is not possible to
find an installer for just a fresh GTK+ from the gimp-win site. (And
even the GIMP 2.4.0 installer bundles GTK+ 2.10.14 and not the latest
2.12.1.) From a bundled GIMP + GTK+ + dependencies installation it can
also be hard to understand what files belong to which part, and which
are really needed for plain GTK+ apps. (For instance, the pangoft2 DLL
and the freetype and fontconfig DLLs and configuration files are quite
unneeded for plain GTK+ apps.)

The main, some may even say "official", distribution for prebuilt
binaries of each version of GTK+ and dependencies is on ftp.gnome.org.
(In the form of zip archives, from which it should be a small matter
of scripting to construct installers if one likes.)

--tml