Re: Compiling for Windows [Was: argv revisited]

[Florian Pelz <pelzflorian pelzflorian de>]

On 05/03/2016 08:34 PM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:
> The complete gtk run time is only about 20MB in size (at least for gtk2)
> which with todays hard disk sizes really is negligable, so I agree that
> there is no reason to try to create a common gtk runtime.
>
> I still remember the frustration back in the days when there was a common
> run environment and installing glade would make inkscape or gimp fail, or
> vice verse. Individual run time environments is really the way to go!
>
> For a peak into the bad old days, see e.g. the following thread:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.general/16828
>
>
> Regards,
> Dov

This is convincing. Thank you.