2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> 2013/2/17 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > >> > >> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Unfortunately our efforts are severely impacted by the lack of official >> >> GTK+ >> >> installers for Windows and OS X and this uncertainty was a major reason >> >> which >> >> brought the Qt port alive. >> > >> > >> > I'm not speaking as a representative of the GTK project, but I will note >> > that as the lead developer of a large scale app that uses GTK to provide >> > portability to Linux, OS X and Windows, it is my judgement that you >> > should >> > plan to bundle GTK within your application and not rely on it being >> On GNU/Linux distributions we rely on the package manager to provide the >> GTK libraries and it works perfectly. > > > There is no package manager on OS X that could do this. MacPorts or Fink > would be the only equivalent, in which case you would need to talk to them > about their plans for GTK3. However, you will likely find that if you ever > need to do development on an OS X system, the presence of packages from > either MacPorts or Fink can make life very, very complex unless it just so > happens that they have the precise versions that you need. > >> > understanding of things, but on OS X it simply makes a lot more sense to >> > cook up a .app bundle with everything your application needs, including >> > GTK >> > and really seems to reflects Apple's intentions for 3rd party apps that >> > rely >> > on additional 3rd party libraries. >> >> Wireshark already provide such bundles at >> https://wireshark.org/download.html >> thus the problem is only not having the GTK3 binaries we could put in >> the bundles. > > > so build it yourself ... what is the problem? > > moreover, the nature of GTK is such that you cannot "just" include the > binaries in the bundle and expect stuff to work. GTK (2 and 3) are not > currently "relocatable" except on Windows. OK, I'm asking specifically for official pre-built _Windows_ binaries. For OS X building GTK seems to be reasonable and well documented. Cheers, Balint _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
