Hi Richard, On Monday, 18 July 2011, richard boaz <[email protected]> wrote: > i'm trying to create an installer of my program for all variants LINUX, but > am having trouble with something i had hoped/though would be trivial. > how does one confirm from the shell which version of the run-time GTK+ > libraries are installed?
I think you have two possible solutions. The easiest is to make a useful and popular program and simply let other people package it for you for the various distributions. I think this is probably the only way to safely link to the users existing set of packages without having to do a crazy amount of work. Second best is to do what people do on OS X and Windows and bundle the libs you use with your program, plus a wrapper script that makes your program pick up your gtk rather than the host one (if any). This is what firefox does, for example. You'll find this is a lot of work, sadly. There are projects which aim to provide cross- Linux binary packaging systems, but I've not tried any of them. John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
