Re: [Pan-users] Re: semi-OT GTK (Re: Re: Install of Pan on Windows)

[K. Haley]

Duncan wrote:

> Ken Stanley posted <address@hidden>,
> excerpted below,  on Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:39:06 -0500:
>
>
>
> > Just an idea... and the devs can correct me if I'm wrong, but in Win32,
> > doesn't the DLL search path start with the current working directory of
> > the application? If this is the case, couldn't any user in essence dump
> > any version of GTK DLL's in the Pan folder and it use that, instead of
> > system wide GTK DLL's? Heck, if anything, it (AFAIK) couldn't hurt to
> > try.
....

> Or... it could simply be that there's more to it than the single dll
> you've been putting in the app dir, like I said, possibly a set of
> registry entries, or more likely, a couple dlls (or anyway one more than
> you've been doing) that need to be handled.  As I mentioned, GTK+ has
> three components, so it's likely it has three, possibly more, dlls.
GTK+ has the same requirements & number of libraries as under linux.  It
is possible to have more than one version of gtk installed.  First, the
only version that I know works with pan is at
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html .  Since you're not
compiling you just need the runtime files for glib, gtk+, atk, pango,
iconv, gettext and probably zlib, libpng, and libjpeg.  If the pan
installer creates a directory structure like

pan/
..bin/
..shared/
..lib/

then you can just unzip those files into pan/ at which point pan should
work.  Otherwise you would need to add gtk/bin to your path before
running pan.  I don't run gaim but I would expect it to work with this
version of gtk+ as well.  Hope this helps.

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