Re: GTK app development for windows.

[John Stebbins <stebbins jetheaddev com>]

On 01/30/2013 11:24 AM, Andrew Potter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:52 AM, John Stebbins <stebbins jetheaddev com>wrote:
>
> > Not sure where you are getting your information.  I just built HandBrake
> > using the mingw tools on Fedora 18 with gtk+ 3
> > support.  Works spiffy.
> Presumably he is getting his information from
> http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
>
> It is relatively easy to cross-compile a Gtk3 Windows .exe with mingw.
>
> But how do you give users the program? They need the Gtk3
> & dependency .DLLs to run it. There is no Gtk3 installer. Do you have your
> own installer and distribute the .DLLs that are in the Fedora packages? I'm
> curious to know if that works. Also if you could share some details on your
> installer I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
> _______________________________________________

Ah, never bothered to look for an "official" user oriented gtk release. I figure it's unreasonable to expect 
users to
install all of gtk just so they can try out some random program that happens to use gtk.  So I just package 
the
necessary DLLs and other configuration information with the exe.

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