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rotalever · Familiar Face Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 11

Hi,
I am compiling my GTK-Programs (written in C) with MS Visual C++ 6.0. It runs fine, but I want to know, how I can link the libs, so that the user does not need to install a GTK environment for running my programm.

First I thought: just copy the dlls from c:/Programs/CommonFiles/GTK/... to the applications folders, but then everything look very bad (wrong theme, bad font, etc.).

If I remove the dlls from the app's folder everything looks good, but then the user has to install a GTK environment to run my app. So what can I do?

Regards

hydra · Familiar Face Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 35

I am interested about your problem because I write gtk windoze apps too.
Probably the best method to solve this is to use the dlls from the .exe directory and to set the path to the fonts and all required stuff.
This can be done via installator. You have such one for your application, don't you?
So, just set the environment and the path of the dlls and fonts when you run the installer.
EDIT:
I would suggest you to contact the GAIM developer team. They produce gaim for windoze...with and without gtk+.
When you learn how to do that please post here fix of the problem.
It will useful for other people to know...
I will contact the gaim team too, because i need fix of this problem too..

rotalever · Familiar Face Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 11

Hmm, the Problem is: I don't use an Installer. It MUST be a standalone (possibly with some dlls) Executable.

Abhijit Singh · Familiar Face Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 12

To add Libs -> goto PROJECT->ADD TO PROJECT->FILES

Add the libs present in your LIB folder ( must be in gtk2.0 folder or in some other ). If you have a LIB named " libpng-bcc.lib " remove it from.
You can view all the libs,files etc added to your project as follows
VIEW-->WORKSPACE OR (ALT 0). Click the file in FILEVIEW tab and press delete to remove it from your project.

For DLL's I added all the dlls in my DEBUG folder. Also add the " etc " and " lib\gtk-2.0 " folder to DEBUG folder. To load new themes just create a folder DEBUG\etc\gtk-2.0 and add all the files ( gtkrc + image files ).

For discussion in personal mail me at Abhijitfiasco@gmail.com