Re: GTK+ windows installer confusion

[ramsdell mitre org (John D. Ramsdell)]

"Dov Grobgeld" <dov grobgeld gmail com> writes:

> I'd be happy to provide make files (actually SConstruct files), and
> the NSIS file, that works for me, if there is any interest.

Ah, another NSIS user.  I found a rather simple way to build an
installer that contains its own version of the GTK+ runtime on Windows
with MSYS.  I uninstalled GTK+, deleted the GTK directory in
Common Files, and then installed GTK+ 2.8.18.  I copied all the files
in the GTK\2.0 directory into a staging area.  I added my license to
the root directory of the staging area, and added my application to the
bin directory.

Next I created a list of the files in the staging directory with:

$ find . -type f | sed 's-\./--g' | sed 's-/-\\-g' > ../files.txt

and a list of the directories with:

$ find . -type d | sed 's-^\.-$INSTDIR-g' | sed 's-/-\\-g' | sort -r \
  > ../dirs.txt

To generate the NSIS input required to create directories and files, I
used:

$ awk '{print "SetOutPath \"" $0 "\""}' dirs.txt

$ awk '{print "File \"/oname=" $0 "\" \"" $0 "\""}' files.txt

To generate the NSIS input required to delete files and directories, I
used:

$ awk '{print "Delete \"" $0 "\""}' files.txt

$ awk '{print "RMDir \"" $0 "\""}' dirs.txt

A little cutting and pasting finished off the revised installer
script, and I was able to generate an installer with its own GTK+
libraries.

Finally, I uninstalled GTK+ 2.8.18, and reinstalled the version used
by GAIM.  There may be some typo in the above, as I'm capturing the
procedure after the fact.

John