Re: 2.8.x incompatibility with Windows 2003 server

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Daniel Kasak writes:
>  > gtk-2.8.x will not work under Windows 2003 server.
>
> Very unlikely. More probably some installation screwup on the machine
> in question.
>
>  > I have tried a number of different versions, and all give the same
>  > error when I start *any* gtk application:
>
>  > The procedure entry point gdk_draw_rectangle_alpha_libgtk_only could not 
>  > be loaded in the dynamic link library libgdk_win32-2.0.0.dll
>
> (The name is libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll. Try to pay attention to details.)
>   

Yeah. Sorry about that. I scribbled it on the back of an envelope and
then continued on with installing stuff. I was in a hurry.

> Are you sure you don't have some bogus old libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll in
> the windows system32 folder, for instance, that gets used instead of
> the one you think you are using? Or somewhere in your PATH where you
> didn't expect it to be? 
>   

It was a *fresh* installation on a new Windows 2003 server running
Citrix. I'm positive that there was no existing gtk stuff on there. I'm
using a binary installer, from:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/alexv6/

I realise that some people are not impressed with my use of the above
binary installer. I would like to use the installer at
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html but I have a number of
outstanding issues that I can't work around at the moment. The 1st and
most important is that my Gtk2-Perl setup simply doesn't work with it. I
will set up a new VMWare installation and try installing everything from
scratch ASAP, but currently if I remove Alex's distribution and replace
it with the gimp-win one, it breaks everything Perl - even though I can
run other gtk apps. The 2nd issue is the theme switcher. When I've
mentioned this before ( on a number of occasions ), the consensus seems
to be that people running gtk on Windows should just 'deal with' the
default WIMP theme. This simply doesn't cut it for me. However the 1st
issue - not actually working with the Perl bindings - is of course
blocking me using it anyway.

Dan