Re: ABI question

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 1/5/07, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks.  The whole API / ABI / Ubuntu installing 2.8 gtkmm but called
it 2.4 stuff was confusing me.  I'm using the latest gtkmm 2.4 source
code and it's working great.

Joe