Re: Installing gtk on Windows XP

["Tor Lillqvist" <tml iki fi>]

> Is there an installer that actually works on XP?

I know that single-click executable installers are the only acceptable
thing for end-users. But you are a developer, right? To get a run-time
and development environment ready to develop and run GTK+ applications
with, you don't necessarily need to use an installer. After all, no
Registry settings or other magic stuff that an installer might be
doing are needed. If you know what PATH is, and know how to set it
(either globally for all your sessions, in a command prompt, or
whatever), you only have to unpack the GTK+ "bundle" zip archive from
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html somewhere and add its "bin"
folder to your PATH.

I personally like the simplicity of plain zip archives that you unpack
manually, you see axactly what is happening, nothing goes on behind
your back. But then I am also a grumpy old man. (Please avoid WinZip,
though. It is said to behave in a broken way. The built-in zip
unpacker in Explorer works fine. Personally I tend to use the
command-line unzip.exe, though...)

> I have tried about half a dozen and all are missing some component.

You should complain then to those people who are distributing each of
them specifically. Not all are necessarily following this list.

> Something is looking in the wrong place (/target should be /gtk).  Looks
> like a mistake in the installer.

Again, complain specifically to the maintainer(s) of the installer in
question. It seems they are distributing a broken gdk-pixbuf.loaders
file that doesn't match the DLLs they are distributing, or something.
(The paths to the DLLs in the gdk-pixbuf.loaders file don't need to
correspond to actual existing folders on the end-user machine. See for
instance  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462433#c5 .)

--tml