Another equivalent scons-based way of compiling for windows with gcc is shown in my program giv.
See: https://github.com/dov/giv/blob/master/SConstruct SCons uses the Sconstruct files to do the cross-compilation and also calls out to nsis to create a windows installer. The complete gtk run time is only about 20MB in size (at least for gtk2) which with todays hard disk sizes really is negligable, so I agree that there is no reason to try to create a common gtk runtime. I still remember the frustration back in the days when there was a common run environment and installing glade would make inkscape or gimp fail, or vice verse. Individual run time environments is really the way to go! For a peak into the bad old days, see e.g. the following thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk%2B.general/16828 Regards, Dov On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Allin Cottrell <cottr...@wfu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2016, Dave Howorth wrote: > > On 2016-05-03 16:57, Florian Pelz wrote: >> >>> I'd like to have one standard GTK+ installer for the GTK+ DLLs etc. that >>> can be downloaded and installed from other installers, so there is just >>> one GTK+ installed on Windows instead of one copy of perhaps different >>> versions of GTK+ for each application. >>> >> >> That's been a longstanding desire of many people. The other side of the >> argument of course is that all the applications have to be compatible with >> that particular version of the libraries, which has sometimes proven to be >> problematic even when the libraries ship with Windows. Expecting every >> application to be updated every time there is a library update is not >> realistic. It's not like a linux distro where the distro can update and >> recompile all the dependencies itself. >> > > Yep, Florian's desire is a "natural" one from the point of view of anyone > used to Linux but unfortunately it's totally impractical on MS Windows. > It's a real No-No for any third-party package to install DLLs into system > directories on Windows; this would likely break all sorts of things. > > It may seem like a terrible waste of disk space to install multiple > per-application copies of GTK, but you just have to get over it. Basically > the same on Mac OS X. > > (I might note: even on Linux, GTK updates are not necessarily harmless. > For example, updating from GTK 3.18 to 3.20 breaks emacs and gnumeric; they > still run, but they're damaged.) > > Allin Cottrell > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
