How does Pidgin and GTK work on Windows

[Daniel Atallah]

2008/6/17 Billy Schoenberg <wasbridge at gmail.com>:
> I have used Pidgin for the past couple of years, and I finally started doing
> my own development work with GTK.  I have a question for you all, how is it
> that you get Pidgin to find the GTK runtime on windows.  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).   What is your secret? If you need more
> info do not be afraid to ask, I am sorry to bother you all, but I know your
> stuff works great, and I have kind of run out of places to turn.

We use a launcher executable that takes care of figuring out where
GTK+ is and fixing the path before it loads a dll containing all of
the GTK+ dependant stuff.

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/file/420b71541a7786d593759ead8d775f487291fb97/pidgin/win32/winpidgin.c

-D