I've been doing cross platform development and windows installer during the last few years of lots of C/C++ programs. Here is an outline of my practices:
- Build done through scons. - Special scons rules for doing cross compilation for Windows from Linux. - Use NSIS for Windows installer deployment. (cross compiled mingw32 version of nsis used). - The Windows installer is self contained, i.e. it is not dependent on the installation of a separate gtk installation. - The windows binaries are the standard compiled binaries from ftp.gtk.org - Testing done through a WinXP installation under VirtualBox. See the SConstruct and NSIS files of my two programs giv and gemtcl for examples of how to do the above. Regards, Dov 2009/7/11 Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@goebel-consult.de> > Hi, > > I'm currently working to make setting up a Python application > (www.tryton.org) easier for Windows users. Meanwhile I'm totally > confused about which package of bundle to use and what to put into the > installer package. > > Now GTK for Windows comes in quite a lot of flavours. Since Tryton uses > pygtk & Co., we only need the runtime environment, no developer files. > But there are still some options left: > - zipped runtime bundle including 3rd-party dependencies. > - zipped archives for individual packages (glib, gtk+, pango, ...) > - installer from glade-win32 somewhat outdated, but including librsvg > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gladewin32/files/> > - installer from <http://gtk-win.sourceforge.net/>: much more up to date > but missing librsvg and libbz2 > > Which one should I use? Is there some agreed best practice? > > I'm currently tending to this solution: > * use the installer from gtk-win for the development environment > * put additional .dlls (e.g. librsvg) into the development directory > * include the whole gtk-win installer into the Tryton installer. > > Any comments or suggestions anyone? > > -- > Schönen Gruß - Regards > Hartmut Goebel > Dipl.-Informatiker (univ.), CISSP, CSSLP > > Goebel Consult > Spezialist für IT-Sicherheit in komplexen Umgebungen > http://www.goebel-consult.de > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
