From: Tor L. <tm...@ik...> - 2001-10-14 13:48:31
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David Weisgerber writes: > I am trying to installing it... First when I downloaded the > packages By "the packages", do you mean the sources? The official source tarballs (.tar.gz) files of some GTK version? Or the Win32 port sources (packaged by me) from www.gimp.org/win32? Or do you mean the "developer" package, from the same www.gimp.org site? > I was wondering about that there are no real make or configure > files to perform a correct install. Well, one reason is there is no single "correct install". What would be the correct way to one person, would seem very strange to another. I, for instance, happen to currently have my mingw tools and stuff in g:\mingw. Somebody else might have them in C:\mingw. Or even in C:\usr\bin, \usr\include, etc, trying to mimic Unix. Or there might be somewhere in a Cygwin file system. And there is a large potential GTK user base that use MSVC, and coudln't care less about trying to mimic Unix. (Remember that the GTK and GLib DLLs are useable both from gcc- and MSVC-compiled code, and should be kept that way.) Which one is correct? > Then I tried to do it by copying but this didn't work. Can > you give me some instructions how to install the whole gtk / glib things to > the right place in my mingw installation ? > [Why are the Gtk people not able to make it installable like SDL, > for example?] If you have time to spend on it, I am sure nobody would object if you would prepare a GTK package that installs nicely and automagically for all potential users. --tml |