Re: Redistributing gtkmm 2.16 to windows machines

[Filipe Apostolo <f apostolo cbr gmail com>]

I found the problem!

It was a folder inside \etc which was named as gtk-2 instead of gtk-2.0.
About the Window theme the file gtkrc was in the \share instead of \etc


Thanks,

Apostolo

Armin Burgmeier wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 17:09 +0000, Filipe Apostolo wrote:
>   
>> Hi to everyone,
>>
>> I'm developing gtkmm applications with gtkmm2.16 since the further
>> versions until the last one where unstable for windows.
>>
>> Now I'm trying to redistrubute the applications with local dll. I've
>> created the application directory with \bin, \etc, \share, \lib and a
>> LGPL.txt and added my application and the dll are inside \bin as was
>> described in gtkmm project web page.
>>
>> It was working fine, altought the window theme was a litle bit diferent
>> as usual but I've ignored.
>>
>> But when I've added an Image at the main window, the application it
>> crashes when I run it from the distribuition directory. Of course I've
>> copied the image to \bin directory.
>>
>> Well I've done more, before I load the image I check if the image
>> exists, and if not I use a label instead of it. The prgram crashes also.
>> Only when I change or take the image out the label is added. So I think
>> it crashes when the application loads the image.
>>
>> Well and when I used the console at behind I could read that Gtkmm
>> failed to load the Windows Themes, I think that is the reason of the
>> unusual window.
>>
>> I think that the problem must be with the dll, paths. However the gtkmm
>> page was updated and the dll's are diferent.
>>
>> So First question:
>>     What can be the problem?
>>     
>
> If it works from your development environment then I suggest to copy
> additional files from the installed gtkmm to your distribution
> one-by-one until it starts running from there, so you know which file(s)
> are missing. I'd suspect that maybe you are missing gdk-pixbuf image
> loaders or some DLLs they require, such as libpng, libjpeg or libtiff.
> What format is your image?
>
>   
>> Second Question:
>>     If it is a problem of missing files or incorrect paths can somone
>> send me the 2.16 version instructions?
>>     
>
> http://live.gnome.org/action/recall/gtkmm/MSWindows?action=recall&rev=36
>
> Armin
>
>
>