Re: GTK+ windows installer confusion

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- "John D. Ramsdell" <ramsdell mitre org> wrote:

> I developed a Sudoku game that is designed to be easily ported to a
> large variety of platforms.  There were several reasons to select
> GTK+, among the most significant reason is Cairo.  Because I wanted
> to use Cairo, the runtime requires GTK+ 2.8.0 or newer.
> 
> The program was written on Linux, using GNU autotools.  As a result,
> the game was easily ported to other Linux distributions, and Mac OS X,
> as long as one is willing to use X11 on the Mac.  The DarwinPorts port
> file gtk+ automates the task of installing GTK+ on a Mac.  Nice.
> 
> The Windows port was a little more difficult.  To create a binary, I
> installed MinGW and MSYS, and followed the instructions on Tor
> Lillqvist's web page at http://www.gimp.org to load a development
> environment. For now, let me ignore the minor build issues, but it
> suffices to say that I generated a working binary on Windows.  The
> question becomes, how do I distribute it.
> 
> I installed the latest GTK+ windows installer at
> http://gimp-win.sf.net, which installs GTK+ 2.8.18.  When I try to run
> the application outside of MSYS, I get the following message:
> 
>   The procedure entry point g_type_register_static_simple could not be
>   located in the dynamic link library libgobject-2.0.0.dll.
> 
> I'm told the error occurs as a result of a version mismatch with GLib.
> 
> A search of this mailing list shows there is another installer, this
> one is at http://gladewin32.sf.net.  The nice thing about this release
> is it appears the development installer is kept in sync with the end
> user installer.  I bet I can get my application working, but how do I
> ensure that end users get the correct installer?  Having two to pick
> from in sure to cause confusion.


Just create a staticly linked executable - if you know how. It's a sure
way and nowadays disk space is cheap.

I even prefer to run statically built NEdit on Linux - because of
Motiff and other issues.


> Is there some way for the gladewin32
> and gimp people to find common ground?
> 
> The Sudoku game is available at
> http://luaforge.net/projects/gtksudoku/.  This implementation is quite
> different than gnome-sudoku, as this program is designed to 
> eliminate much of the drudgery of solving a Sudoku puzzle, especially
> the difficult ones.
> 
> John
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--Sergei.

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