How does Pidgin and GTK work on Windows

SHiNE csyfek at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 00:54:05 EDT 2008


Hi

You need gladewin32.
http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/

Download gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe and install it.
If you are used to working in console environment, you can try msys
too. Or use cmake instead.

SHiNE


2008/7/2 Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de>:
> * Billy Schoenberg <wasbridge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I have written my own app based on GTK (Open Dialect
>> http://dialect.openmodeling.net) and I am having a ton of trouble
>> with getting my app to find GTK on windows (it works sometimes,
>> sometimes it doesn't).
>
> Library managemant on win32 is a nightmare, package management
> actually non-existing. So you probably want to do static linking.
>
> You binary is getting too big then ? Well, that's completely
> common on win32 - users are usally have fat machines for tiny
> things in that world (often for exactly that reason) ;-P
>
> Another way could be using a GNU subsystem (eg cygwin) or
> colinux instead.
>
>
> cu
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