I got the skinny on this from my contact at SUSE. GDI+ is theoretically the best choice, since it's a native Win32 library that can load many different image formats. It's what Gtk will use by default if detected, and indeed it's what our mingw32-gtk2 package uses. However _in practice_ this fails with images over a certain size (bugs in Windows? who'd have thought!).
So he recommends disabling GDI+ when compiling Gtk. This means we will need a mingw32-libtiff library if we want to support TIFF. SUSE's packages also link the pixbuf loaders statically to avoid the gtk-pixbuf.loaders configuration file. He also tells me he links pango's IM-modules statically to avoid another config file, gtk.immodules. That sounds like an excellent idea because we go through hoops in nsiswrapper to create both these config files in the right place with the right contents. Anyone wants to have a go at making a patch for the above, please post it on the list. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
