RE: packaging for windows

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Konovalov, Vadim said:
> > > Unlike Tk, where GUI part is inside extension, perl-Gtk uses
> > > external bindings, so your proposal will end up with including
> > > entire Gtk engine inside ActivePerl distribution? I think this
> > > isn't possible.
> >
> > Possible, yes; practical, I dunno...
>
> its possible to arrange for files to include gtk within some perl package.
>
> But I very doubt you'll convince ActiveState perl people to include Gtk into
> Perl distribution

It's not at all necessary for ActivePerl to include GTK+ for that to work.
PAR has machinery to include necessary DLLs and other files into the created
archive, and unpack them into a temporary space where the packaged script can
find them.

But the problem that GTK+ is large remains, as well as the problem that GTK+
is not easily relocated.

We have PPMs of Gtk2 and friends at http://gtk2-perl.sf.net/win32/ precisely
because it's a bear to compile, but those PPMs assume you already have GTK+
installed by deus ex machina.


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