Re: EXTERNAL: Windows Installer for Gtk+3.6.2 and gtkmm-3.6.0

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre () mecheye net>]

It matches Windows recommendations as well. They consider that you should
rarely ship or install system DLLs, and instead ship all DLLs you want
locally, to prevent DLL conflicts.


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Paul Davis <paul () linuxaudiosystems com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately our efforts are severely impacted by the lack of official
> > GTK+
> > installers for Windows and OS X and this uncertainty was a major reason
> > which
> > brought the Qt port alive.
>
> I'm not speaking as a representative of the GTK project, but I will note
> that as the lead developer of a large scale app that uses GTK to provide
> portability to Linux, OS X and Windows, it is my judgement that you should
> plan to bundle GTK within your application and not rely on it being
> installed separately. I can speak to this less on Windows, where I have
> less understanding of things, but on OS X it simply makes a lot more sense
> to cook up a .app bundle with everything your application needs, including
> GTK and really seems to reflects Apple's intentions for 3rd party apps that
> rely on additional 3rd party libraries.
>
> --p
>
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-- 
  Jasper

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