Re: [Bug-gnubg] Win32 builds - new set of DLL

[Holger]

At 15:19 27.06.2003 +0200, Øystein O Johansen wrote:
> (You can get the list of needed dlls by typing: objdump -p gnubg.exe | grep
> dll )

        DLL Name: libart_lgpl.dll
        DLL Name: freetype-6.dll
        DLL Name: gdbm.dll
        DLL Name: libgdk-0.dll
        DLL Name: libglib-2.0-0.dll
        DLL Name: libgtk-0.dll
        DLL Name: libiconv-2.dll
        DLL Name: libintl.dll
        DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
        DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
        DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
        DLL Name: libpng.dll
        DLL Name: USER32.dll
        DLL Name: libxml2.dll

But it only shows the directly dependent libraries. libpng needs zlib for 
instance.

> I think iconv.dll and libiconv-2.dll is compatible to each other. Let's use
> just one.

> Same with libintl. I think we should just use one, not both libint-1.dll
> and libintl-2.dll. Let's agree to use the same dll's for all builds, and
> let's also try not to use two different library versions in the same
> distribution, if possible. I think we should put a high priority on that.
> (Maybe even make a special build of a library)

Yes, I'd also like to just use libiconv-2.dll and libintl-2.dll. It appears 
that GTK+ and/or glib are linked to the old versions and thus require the 
library with that name. In order to solve this we would have to compile 
glib and GTK+ ourselves. I'm not really fond of doing this myself. ;)

If we would decide on using the older versions, this could require a 
careful setup of MinGW. E.g. I've installed a few more packages than 
necessary (just because they're useful) and they require the new versions. 
So they exist and during compilation gnubg gets linked against them.

> There's also an other possibillity. We could use the GTK runtime libraries
> from the GIMP for Windows package. It will same the poeple who uses both
> the gimp and gnubg the trouble of having the same gtk libraries to places
> on their computer.

This could be nice. However, a few kB shouldn't matter at all.

Regards,

        Holger