Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 06:15 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 22:50 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> > Yes. We will have to think of a naming convention for those binaries.
> > gtkmm-2.4-vc9.dll? (in contrast to gtkmm-2.4.dll for VS 2005, which we
> > might then rename to gtkmm-2.4-vc8.dll, possibly breaking compatibility)
> 
> Did Cedric's old installer have a VS2005 build, or just a VS2003 one?

It contained only a VS2005 one (and one for MinGW).

> > But I'm still not 100% convinced. Do other C++ projects that provide
> > Windows binaries also ship different DLLs for each Visual Studio
> > Version?
> 
> Yes, I'd like to do what's normal, though I can't think of anything to
> look at. But in the end we must do what people need.
> 
> It looks like Qt only provide a MinGW build (not even any binaries)
> though that is not clear:
> http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource/appdev

I'm going to add VS 2008 projects to SVN and corresponding binaries to
the installers in the next few days.

Armin