Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

[Florian Pelz <pelzflorian pelzflorian de>]

On 05/03/2016 06:12 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> 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.

That's a good argument, but those who don't want to risk breakage due to
incompatibilities could still bundle it the old-fashioned way. Of
course, maybe it's too much effort and most people prefer stability on
Windows. I'm not going to take the time, so thank you for explaining the
reasons.