On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A while back some app developers who have need of GTK+ on MS > Windows, yet whose apps use only a subset of the available > image-loaders, requested that the build of the Windows packages be > made modular (as it was in the old days). That way, one can slim > down the packaging of one's app, skipping the redundant loaders > along with their third-party dependencies (e.g. libtiff and > libjpeg). > > This was done for a while (e.g. with the GTK 2.12.11 package), and > I was grateful for that. > > But I see that the current GTK 2.14.4 package > ( http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html ) has reverted to a > monolithic build, so that a gtk app won't start without having the > tiff and jpeg libraries installed, even if they're never used. > > Was there a compelling reason for this reversion? Any chance of > getting a modular build again? Thanks.
The reason for this change is that the 2.14.x series uses a new GDI+ based loader instead of the previous loaders. If you run dependency walker on libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll, you'll see that it doesn't depend on the various external libraries. -D _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
