MEA-Mike.Friedrichs writes: > I assume the zip files must be unzipped to some 'xxxxx' directory. > Then all of the zip files will be unzipped to sub-directories under > 'xxxxx'.
> Is 'xxxxxx' the only directory to be added to the environmental > variable 'PATH' ? Yes. (Not xxxxx itself, but xxxxx\bin.) > Is there other environmental variables which require changes? No. > Do all gtk+ applications require the distributions of the gtk+ and > glib runtime zip files. You forgot Pango and atk, and gettext and libiconv, and things like libpng and zlib if you need support for PNG image files. Also note that GTK+ 2.4 is unmaintained since two release cycles. The current maintained branch of GTK+ is 2.8. (Read www.gimp.org/win32/downloads.html for some caveats related to what GTK+ runtime to use.) > This just seems like a lot of files to support a gtk gui driven > application to run on a win32 machine. Well, that's just the way it is. You can leave out things like localisation files (message catalogs for various languages), if you are sure that your users will be satisfied with (American) English. Don't forget that you are also required to distribute, or offer to provide upon request, the sources for all LGPL or GPL software you distribute or have distributed. Yes, this means *you*, it's not enough to provide pointers to download sites maintained by somebody else. You can unbundle the GTK+ distribution from the application, and distribute it separately, so that if several apps use GTK+ and end-users are likely to use just some of the apps, they need download and install GTK+ only once. This is done for the GIMP. On the other hand this requires that the different installers for those apps and GTK+ are aware of each others to some extent, and don't step on each others' toes. This can be a mess, really. Many people feel that unbundling GTK+ from apps is a bad move that only creates more confusion than it's worth. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
