Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 18:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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.

That's actually not true. The installer sets indeed HKLM\Software\gtkmm
in the registry so that it finds previous versions when upgrading.

I only mentiond the GTKMM_BASEPATH variable to show that simple .zip
files can't offer the same functionality as the installer (because the
MSVC property sheets would not work).

> > 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.

Armin