Re: Gtkmm Windows installers available

[Armin Burgmeier <armin arbur net>]

On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 11:40 +0200, Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> 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.

I recently uploaded revision 3 of the 2.14.1 installers [1]. They
contain DLLs for both MSVC 2005 and MSVC 2008. They also fix the problem
with the uninstaller not properly removing start menu items of
user-local installations.

There might also be new problems because of the DLL renames, although I
hope there aren't.

Armin

 [1] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gtkmm/2.14/