GTK+ Forums

axpen · Familiar Face Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

OK basically my subject says it all. I'm wanting to know if there are any standard ways of checking whether GTK+ is installed, on windows or linux. I know alot of projects just install duplicates, but certainly that isn't very efficient. I was just wondering if there is a way to check since actual locations on the machine can vary with installations. One way I would presume would be the best way would be to check actual libs for GTK+ components like pango, glib, gobject... But again their physical locations vary.

Thanks for your time and help,
--Alex

axpen · Familiar Face Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

Wow I guess this is a harder question than I thought it would be :P, I found out one thing, G_OS_WIN32 will tell us that the OS is windows, just check that and make a gboolean = true ifdef G_OS_WIN32.

Micah Carrick · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject:

During installation on Linux, autotools uses this check:

pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0

axpen · Familiar Face Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 14

Thanks for the reply, I would use pkg-config, but I can't assume that they have msys or cygwin installed. I could check for pkg-config or else check for GTK_BASEPATH, but is that really how pros check for GTK? Or do they just say if our application doesn't work, install GTK?

Thanks for the help,
--Alex

Micah Carrick · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:33 pm Post subject:

No clue. Maybe take a look at gaim or gimp for Windows installers?