Re: Windows, shareware and GTK

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:52:41 +0600, Alexander Ulianov <uav urmail ru> wrote:
> 1). Is Win32-app with GTK+ going to be stable? My main 2-D graphics app
> for windows is GIMP 1.2.0. It works well but it crashes quite often.

It's much better these days. There's a packaged installer at:

http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/stable.html

so you can just ask your users to download and install that. About 4 MBytes.

The installer lets you put the runtime anywhere on your system and
then uses a registry key so that your program can find the DLLs at
runtime. You don't need to statically link.

> And can I recompile it with
> Cygwin rather than MSVC runtime?

You can't use cygwin: you have to use mingw or the cygwin environment
in native mode. glib provides most of the stuff that you might need
from cygwin.dll.

> 3). How will it look? For the game it is always going to be a big

It ships with a default theme on win32 that mimics XP or 2000 pretty
closely. On NT and 98/95 you get the default GTK look (I think).

http://gtk-wimp.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

you can use other themes of course, but you're right, you should check
the licence.

John