Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:05 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 16:46 -0400, Philip Kovacs wrote:
> > I am not a big fan of "installers" as they write to the registry.  I prefer 
> > zip archives that have no such side-effects.
> 
> The gtkmm installer sets the GTKMM_BASEPATH environment variable that is
> required for the MSVC property sheets (they set the include paths to
> $(GTKMM_BASEPATH)\include\gtkmm-2.4 etc.). Simply using relative path
> names doesn't seem to work.

Maybe it's worth mentioning (on the wiki page) that no registry settings
(or other environment variables) are set by the installer, or anything
else other than just putting files in directories.

> Also, if you don't know where the GTK+ bundle has been extracted to, you
> probably can't set the correct paths to the C header and library files
> in the property sheets.

Yes, I like having the gtkmm dependencies in the same installer. It just
makes it easier.

Rebuilding gtkmm (if we really can't provide binaries for all common
compilers) should already be easy (and Armin has documented that), but I
guess we'd welcome any suggestions/patches to improve that.

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