Bug in gtkd?

Mike Wey via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Aug 5 05:44:45 PDT 2017


On 03-08-17 23:11, Johnson Jones wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 August 2017 at 21:00:17 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:
>> On 03-08-17 22:40, Johnson Jones wrote:
>>> Ok, so, I linked the gtk to the msys gtk that I installed before when 
>>> trying to get glade to work and it worked!
>>>
>>> seems that msys is much more up to date than anything else as it just 
>>> works(I need to remember than in the future).
>>>
>>> The problem I see is this:
>>>
>>> When I get ready to release my app to the public, I can't expect them 
>>> to all have to install msys and build.
>>>
>>> msys seems to clump everything together and I don't know what files I 
>>> need to extract to be able to bundle everything together.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to solve that problem? At least now I can move ahead 
>>> and actually make some progress on my app.
>>>
>>> Would still be nice to get the x86 vs x64 issue resolved so I don't 
>>> have to keep switching between the two for testing purposes. Since 
>>> Visual D was just patched to handle x64 BP's I guess I can stay with 
>>> that for now.
>>>
>>
>> I'll try to build and test some new installers tomorrow that will 
>> include the loaders.
> 
> Thanks. Could you take a look at the loading image thread I started when 
> you get time? I can't seem to get an image to load even though it seems 
> straight forward.
> 
> These are the pixbufs I'm using
> 
> mingw32/mingw-w64-i686-gdk-pixbuf2 2.36.6-2 [installed]
>      An image loading library (mingw-w64)
> mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gdk-pixbuf2 2.36.6-2 [installed]
>      An image loading library (mingw-w64)
> 
> in x64 it crashes completely without an exception though... which is why 
> I want an easy way to switch between the two architectures... since x64 
> seems to be more unstable than x86 but sometimes it's the reverse, and 
> ultimately I'll want to release in x64.
> 
> Also, do I ever need to rebuild gdk when changing gtk installations? 
> Does it ever grab anything from them at compile time or is it all at 
> runtime?

The new installers are available: https://gtkd.org/Downloads/runtime/

You don't need to rebuild GtkD when changing GTK installations, it does 
it all at runtime.

-- 
Mike Wey


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