Re: Creating an app with optional GTK support

["Andreas Falkenhahn" <andreas airsoftsoftwair de>]

> Hello.
>
>> Especially striking is that Ubuntu doesn't have a libglib-XXX.so at all,
>> but only a libglibmm-XXX.so!
>
> I'm not sure why you cannot find it, by all my machines have at least
> libglib-2.0.so, libgtk-x11-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so ... Are you sure
> glib shared object is not present?

Yes, it's not there. Maybe it's because I've not installed Ubuntu. I'm just
using the latest live CD (10.04). This CD only has the said
libglibmm-2.4.so.1,
not a libglib-2.0.so.

>
> As for optional GTK+ support, wouldn't be better to check for GTK+ at
> configure phase and compile/link your application accordingly?

Not possible because my app is currently not open source.

Greets,

Andreas