Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Atallah wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
> > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package
> > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html ) has reverted to a
> > monolithic build, so that a gtk app won't start without having the
> > tiff and jpeg libraries installed, even if they're never used.
>
> The reason for this change is that the 2.14.x series uses a new GDI+
> based loader instead of the previous loaders.

OK, thanks for the info.

> If you run dependency walker on libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll, you'll see
> that it doesn't depend on the various external libraries.

Hmm, but I've tried it on Windows XP: when I use the GTK 2.14.4 
package my GTK app won't start without jpeg62.dll.

Allin Cottrell