Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth mrc-lmb cam ac uk>]

On 2016-05-03 16:57, Florian Pelz wrote:
> I'd like to have one standard GTK+ installer for the GTK+ DLLs etc. that
> can be downloaded and installed from other installers, so there is just
> one GTK+ installed on Windows instead of one copy of perhaps different
> versions of GTK+ for each application.

That's been a longstanding desire of many people. The other side of the 
argument of course is that all the applications have to be compatible 
with that particular version of the libraries, which has sometimes 
proven to be problematic even when the libraries ship with Windows. 
Expecting every application to be updated every time there is a library 
update is not realistic. It's not like a linux distro where the distro 
can update and recompile all the dependencies itself.