Re: svg pixbuf loader on Windows

[Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net>]

On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 23:38 +0300, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Thanks for this. I think I have the stuff and I think I have poked it in
> > the right places, but so far no joy. The gdk-pixbuf.loaders file in the
> > directory below c:/program files/Denemo seems to be ignored.
>
> Ah. I forgot to mention that when installing a new gdk-pixbuf loader,
> you indeed need to either 1) run the gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders program
> and redirect its output to the corresponding gdk-pixbuf.loaders file
> (thus refreshing the list of loaders GTK+ knows about), or 2) edit the
> gdk-pixbuf.loaders file manually to add an entry for the new loader.
> (If there was an installer for the new loader, the installer should
> take care of this.)
Success! Thank you. Just to spell it out (for anyone else listening in)
you unpack the gtk-bundle, poke the loader & dependencies in the right
places (under lib and bin) and then run gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders. It
executes the new loader to find out what parameters it needs. You can
only write the gdk-pixbuf.loaders file manually if you know what it
needs, guessing won't do.
I'm particularly glad that you remembered all the dependencies because
windows only tells you about the first one it hasn't got, and since I
don't connect to the internet with windows I then have to re-boot into
linux to get it :-)
The new build of Denemo is going up now. Thanks
Richard Shann