Re: Best practice for bundling GTK with an windows application?

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

Oops. Make that:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/

Regards,
Dov

2009/7/11 Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>

> I've been doing cross platform development and windows installer during the
> last few years of lots of C/C++ programs. Here is an outline of my
> practices:
>
>    - Build done through scons.
>    - Special scons rules for doing cross compilation for Windows from
>    Linux.
>    - Use NSIS for Windows installer deployment. (cross compiled mingw32
>    version of nsis used).
>    - The Windows installer is self contained, i.e. it is not dependent on
>    the installation of a separate gtk installation.
>    - The windows binaries are the standard compiled binaries from
>    ftp.gtk.org
>    - Testing done through a WinXP installation under VirtualBox.
>
> See the SConstruct and NSIS files of my two programs giv and gemtcl for
> examples of how to do the above.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> 2009/7/11 Hartmut Goebel <h goebel goebel-consult de>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently working to make setting up a Python application
> > (www.tryton.org) easier for Windows users. Meanwhile I'm totally
> > confused about which package of bundle to use and what to put into the
> > installer package.
> >
> > Now GTK for Windows comes in quite a lot of flavours. Since Tryton uses
> > pygtk & Co., we only need the runtime environment, no developer files.
> > But there are still some options left:
> > - zipped runtime bundle including 3rd-party dependencies.
> > - zipped archives for individual packages (glib, gtk+, pango, ...)
> > - installer from glade-win32 somewhat outdated, but including librsvg
> >  <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gladewin32/files/>
> > - installer from <http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/>: much more up to date
> >  but missing librsvg and libbz2
> >
> > Which one should I use? Is there some agreed best practice?
> >
> > I'm currently tending to this solution:
> > * use the installer from gtk-win for the development environment
> > * put additional .dlls (e.g. librsvg) into the development directory
> > * include the whole gtk-win installer into the Tryton installer.
> >
> > Any comments or suggestions anyone?
> >
> > --
> > Schönen Gruß - Regards
> > Hartmut Goebel
> > Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP
> >
> > Goebel Consult
> > Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit in komplexen Umgebungen
> > http://www.goebel-consult.de
> >
> >
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