Re: EXTERNAL: Windows Installer for Gtk+3.6.2 and gtkmm-3.6.0

[BÃlint RÃczey <balint balintreczey hu>]

2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, BÃlint RÃczey <balint balintreczey hu>
> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > 2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>:
> > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, BÃlint RÃczey <balint balintreczey hu>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately our efforts are severely impacted by the lack of official
> > > > GTK+
> > > > installers for Windows and OS X and this uncertainty was a major reason
> > > > which
> > > > brought the Qt port alive.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm not speaking as a representative of the GTK project, but I will note
> > > that as the lead developer of a large scale app that uses GTK to provide
> > > portability to Linux, OS X and Windows, it is my judgement that you
> > > should
> > > plan to bundle GTK within your application and not rely on it being
> > On GNU/Linux distributions we rely on the package manager to provide the
> > GTK libraries and it works perfectly.
>
>
> There is no package manager on OS X that could do this. MacPorts or Fink
> would be the only equivalent, in which case you would need to talk to them
> about their plans for GTK3. However, you will likely find that if you ever
> need to do development on an OS X system, the presence of packages from
> either MacPorts or Fink can make life very, very complex unless it just so
> happens that they have the precise versions that you need.
>
> > > understanding of things, but on OS X it simply makes a lot more sense to
> > > cook up a .app bundle with everything your application needs, including
> > > GTK
> > > and really seems to reflects Apple's intentions for 3rd party apps that
> > > rely
> > > on additional 3rd party libraries.
> >
> > Wireshark already provide such bundles at
> > https://wireshark.org/download.html
> > thus the problem is only not having the GTK3 binaries we could put in
> > the bundles.
>
>
> so build it yourself ... what is the problem?
>
> moreover, the nature of GTK is such that you cannot "just" include the
> binaries in the bundle and expect stuff to work. GTK (2 and 3) are not
> currently "relocatable" except on Windows.
OK, I'm asking specifically for official pre-built _Windows_ binaries.

For OS X building GTK seems to be reasonable and well documented.

Cheers,
Balint