thanks for that... > > Hello, > > You can also ship the GTK shared libraries with your > application, and dynamically write the various module/pango > config files in your installation routine. Then, set > the appropriate environment variables so that GTK finds > the config files, and you should be good to go. VMWare > for Linux uses this approach successfully. > > ~Jesse > > > riboaz@xxxxxxxxx on May 4, 2005 wrote: > > thanks for the follow-up. > > > > but to split hairs: compiling statically is very useful, then i can > > deliver my application without the user being required to have gtk+ > > installed on their platform. (because when an end-user is not > OS-savvy, > > installing gtk+ can ultimately mean my application will never run since > > they may not be able to successfully install gtk+. and i must imagine > > that the designers of gtk+ did never intend that applications built > with > > gtk+ aren't runnable simply because the end-user doesn't have access to > a > > techie.) > > > > so my question remains: is it possible? was it ever thought of in the > gtk+ > > design to allow for this possibility? or is it such that because the > > resulting static application would be necessarily "heavy" (or for any > > number of other reasons) this is simply not possible? > > > > thanks, > > > > richard > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
