Provide GTK Windows runtime in .zip format for automated builds

[yatima1460]

My big project using GtkD:

https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill

now works on Linux and it's almost working on OSX too.

I would like to build a Windows version on Travis too and dump the necessary GTK .dlls inside a portable zip with the executable and then maybe create an installer too.

The GTK runtime you provide on the website is the best one I've tried, can you provide a .zip version instead of the .exe installer? And if you built that GTK yourself, how did you do it?

Thanks

[MikeWey]

The current installer uses the binaries from msys2.

I'll see about creating the zip file, but i'll have to check if GtkD handles a GTK that is not in the PATH properly.

[yatima1460]

I can confirm it works

I just dumped the 32-bit .dlls inside my executable folder that uses GtkD and the application started on Windows 10

(need to try the 64-bit)

The only bug is that some icons didn't appear, but that's normal because there is no theme installed

[yatima1460]

Also if your website is not hosted on Github Pages I recommend to add the zip binaries here on GitHub Releases so me and other devs will not destroy your bandwidth

[yatima1460]

Or we could setup a repository using Travis Windows to create them daily. (does Travis even support MSYS2)?

I am trying with vcpkg but Travis just crashes It seems MSBuild is badly installed/not installed even when they claim it's installed

https://github.com/yatima1460/GTK3-Windows-x64/blob/master/.travis.yml

[yatima1460]

@MikeWey I found the best solution, forget your MSYS .dlls, vcpkg can build fresh GTK dlls now on Windows but you need to add support for it

[yatima1460]

The current problem is that Loader.d can't find the .dlls even when they are renamed and put in the same folder of my executable

First it can't find libgdk-3-0.dll because vcpkg generates a different name, after renaming it, it loads the .dll but it needs libgtk-3-0.dll too but after renaming that too it doesn't work and continues to whine that libgtk-3-0.dll is missing even when it's in the same folder

[yatima1460]

built them if you need them

https://github.com/yatima1460/GTK3-Windows-Binaries/releases/tag/3.22.19-2

[MikeWey]

Nice, did you sort out the naming issue with the dll's. It looks like that compared to the other platforms vcpkg doesn't include the so version in the dll name?

[yatima1460]

Nope, can't understand why, I renamed both libraries but it can't find libgtk-3-0.dll even when it's in the same folder but can find libgdk-3-0.dll

object.Exception@GtkD-3.8.5\generated\gtkd\gtkd\Loader.d(125): Library load failed (libgtk-3-0.dll): The specified module could not be found.

The only reason I can think of is that vcpkg adds the name gtk-3.dll (original name coming out from vcpkg) as a #define somewhere inside the .dll too

Maybe I can try to rename these and if it works add a version(Windows) {}

https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/blob/5d99cc2062a1cd6e5112d77eb32c6546dc9a9eb0/src/gtkd/paths.d#L72

[MikeWey]

That would be because libgtk-3-0.dll depends on the other libraries which it can no longer find because they have been renamed.

For renaming the libraries you will need to change these:

https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/blob/master/generated/gtkd/gobject/c/functions.d#L32

They are in the same place for the other packages.

[MikeWey]

Does Travis support 7zip?

https://github.com/gtkd-developers/Gtk-Installer/releases/tag/v3.24.8

[yatima1460]

Yes, Travis on Windows is Git Bash with 7zip already installed

And even if it wasn't there you could wget it! Or use choco to install it too

[yatima1460]

Thanks

I will check if I can find a way to fix the vcpkg gtk

[MikeWey]

wingtk (#270) also uses different names for the gtk dll's so i'll update the generator to generate the different possibilities for Windows.