Re: GTK on Windows

[Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com>]

There is a standard way, and that is to have each gtk application install its own copy of gtk under Windows. I.e. there is no gtk at all in system/software, and thus there can be no conflicts. The gtk runtime is very small, around 10-15MB and with todays hard drives and download speeds that overhead is negligable. If there are any programs that depend on a "global" gtk installation, then that may be considered a bug that should be fixed.

I believe there have been lengthy discussions about this issue on this list in the past, and the duplication of gtk runtime was the least evil solution that was agreed upon.

Regards,
Dov

2009/7/19 Gabriel Rauter <sirblackheart lagoc org>

I don't know if this the right place to talk about this,
but I don't know where else i should do so.

I'm a gnome user and like the gtk applications there.
But on the other side i am a gamer to, and most games only work well on windows.
Because spending a lot of time on windows, i miss my gnome/linux apps,
but I'm lucky, and most of my apps have been ported to windows.

I'm happy with this apps, but ...
at the moment under system->software there are three GTK+ Libraries installed,
and I don't know which program installed which library.
I don't know if any of these has overwritten pieces of one installed before.
And what about the GTK+ apps bundled with their own gtk in their own folders.
And wich gtk library does a certain application use when i start it now.