Re: MS Windows packages and modularity

["Daniel Atallah" <daniel atallah gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
> 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.

I had previously tried with the GTK+ 2.14.1 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
and it only depended on libpng and not libjpeg, libtiff, etc.

I wonder if this was a mistake in how the 2.14.4 binaries were built
as I don't see anything in the ChangeLog related to this.

-D