Re: which gtk-win32 version to use?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Manu wrote:

> I'm building an app for linux and windows. I use gtk-win32 with
> mingw for the windows version. The linux version is very stable
> but the windows version sometimes randomly crashes. My question
> is: which gtk-win32 version is best to use? On the gtk website,
> it's said that gtk+ 2.16 is older but more reliable than
> gtk+2.20.

I can confirm that point. As GTK+ 3 emerges and matures things
may change, but for now I'd still recommend 2.16 for production
use on win32.

> (Of course, bugs in my port of the app are most likely the
> reason for these crashes but I'm trying to make sure that
> nothing else is involved.)

Yep. In checking the performance of my own GTK app, I have almost
invariably found that a problem of the form "doing X works fine on
Linux but (sometimes) crashes on Windows" means there's a bug in
my own code. A GTK-on-Windows problem is much more likely to
manifest itself as some part of the GUI not working correctly,
rather than an outright crash.

Allin Cottrell