--- "John D. Ramsdell" <ramsdell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I developed a Sudoku game that is designed to be easily ported to a > large variety of platforms. There were several reasons to select > GTK+, among the most significant reason is Cairo. Because I wanted > to use Cairo, the runtime requires GTK+ 2.8.0 or newer. > > The program was written on Linux, using GNU autotools. As a result, > the game was easily ported to other Linux distributions, and Mac OS X, > as long as one is willing to use X11 on the Mac. The DarwinPorts port > file gtk+ automates the task of installing GTK+ on a Mac. Nice. > > The Windows port was a little more difficult. To create a binary, I > installed MinGW and MSYS, and followed the instructions on Tor > Lillqvist's web page at http://www.gimp.org to load a development > environment. For now, let me ignore the minor build issues, but it > suffices to say that I generated a working binary on Windows. The > question becomes, how do I distribute it. > > I installed the latest GTK+ windows installer at > http://gimp-win.sf.net, which installs GTK+ 2.8.18. When I try to run > the application outside of MSYS, I get the following message: > > The procedure entry point g_type_register_static_simple could not be > located in the dynamic link library libgobject-2.0.0.dll. > > I'm told the error occurs as a result of a version mismatch with GLib. > > A search of this mailing list shows there is another installer, this > one is at http://gladewin32.sf.net. The nice thing about this release > is it appears the development installer is kept in sync with the end > user installer. I bet I can get my application working, but how do I > ensure that end users get the correct installer? Having two to pick > from in sure to cause confusion. Just create a staticly linked executable - if you know how. It's a sure way and nowadays disk space is cheap. I even prefer to run statically built NEdit on Linux - because of Motiff and other issues. > Is there some way for the gladewin32 > and gimp people to find common ground? > > The Sudoku game is available at > http://luaforge.net/projects/gtksudoku/. This implementation is quite > different than gnome-sudoku, as this program is designed to > eliminate much of the drudgery of solving a Sudoku puzzle, especially > the difficult ones. > > John > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > --Sergei. Applications From Scratch: http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
