Re: Can't localize GTK+ itself on Windows XP

[Andrew Ziem <ahz001 gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Tor Lillqvist<tml iki fi> wrote:
> > * GTK 2.16.4 from binaries at http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
>
> Including the gettext-runtime binaries?
Yes.

> > * Executables compressed with UPX
>
> Including the GTK+ DLLs?

Yes

> Try without doing this. I have no idea how
> UPX works, but I guess it is possible that it decompresses the DLL to
> a temporary location and then loads it from there? That would break
> the lookup of the message catalogs.

The mistake was I didn't notice py2exe didn't automatically package
int.dll, so now I include it manually.

UPX works nicely with all of GTK and saves me about half the space
plus a little disk I/O time.


Andrew