Re: ABI question

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 1/4/07, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have gtk-2.4 installed.  What's the latest version of gtkmm that
> will work with it?  I tried compiling the latest stable version of
> glibmm on the box, but it complained that I didn't have glib-2.9
> installed (I have glib2-2.4.7).

You can generally compile and install older versions of gtkmm with
newer versions of GTK+, but you can't usually compile and install
newer versions of gtkmm with older versions of GTK+.  This is because
gtkmm wraps and uses newer interfaces that were introduced in newer
versions of GTK+, which won't exist if you try to compile against
older GTK+ headers.  The same applies to glib and glibmm as well.
So to compile a 2.x.y version of gtkmm (or glibmm) you'll probably
need to have at least the 2.x.0 version of GTK+ (or glib) installed.
So in your case if you don't install new versions of glib/GTK+, the
latest version of gtkmm you'll be able to install is probably the last
release in the 2.4.x series

--
jonner