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

[Kevin Gottsman]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:31:09 -0700, K. Haley wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 

I finally got around to implementing K. Haley's suggestion. It worked
beautfully and now I can dump Outlook Express and go back to Pan. I am
also able to use Gaim at the same time.

Thanks for your help.