Re: Runtime environment for GTK+ application

[Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>]

On 01/12/2012 04:38 PM, Manuel Ferrero wrote:
> I'm learning GTK developement on a Windows XP machine.
> I was able to successfully build a simple hello world and I read about
> the need to include more than the plain exe file if I want to distribute
> my application to someone else.
> I have two question somehow related.
> First: I can't find a precoocked package or at least a best practice
> document on which files are needed to distribute with my application,
> can someone point me on the right direction, please?
> Second ancd very similar to the first: I know my hello world is working
> because I copied the exe file in the bin directory of my GTK
> installation. I was expecting I can run it from any folder in my
> computer because I put the GTK installation base folder in my path
> though, but I get some dll error. Do I forgot something during the GTK
> installation?

Another link to some useful info: http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php

You may also want to check/use this runtime (although it's GTK+ 2.22.0)
I use for several of my apps:
http://www.newsrssticker.com/src/gtk2-win32-runtime-bin.tar.gz
Extra info about building app/installer on win32 is available on the
site (http://www.newsrssticker.com/help.php#building_from_source_howto).

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Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007 gmail com>