Re: static linking

[riboaz xs4all nl]

thanks for that...

>
> Hello,
>
> You can also ship the GTK shared libraries with your
> application, and dynamically write the various module/pango
> config files in your installation routine. Then, set
> the appropriate environment variables so that GTK finds
> the config files, and you should be good to go. VMWare
> for Linux uses this approach successfully.
>
> ~Jesse
>
>
> riboaz xs4all nl on May 4, 2005 wrote:
>  > thanks for the follow-up.
>  >
>  > but to split hairs: compiling statically is very useful, then i can
>  > deliver my application without the user being required to have gtk+
>  > installed on their platform.  (because when an end-user is not
> OS-savvy,
>  > installing gtk+ can ultimately mean my application will never run since
>  > they may not be able to successfully install gtk+.  and i must imagine
>  > that the designers of gtk+ did never intend that applications built
> with
>  > gtk+ aren't runnable simply because the end-user doesn't have access to
> a
>  > techie.)
>  >
>  > so my question remains: is it possible? was it ever thought of in the
> gtk+
>  > design to allow for this possibility?  or is it such that because the
>  > resulting static application would be necessarily "heavy" (or for any
>  > number of other reasons) this is simply not possible?
>  >
>  > thanks,
>  >
>  > richard
>