[racket-dev] Windows GTK version conflicts with GObjectIntrospection

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 14 23:34:19 EDT 2013

I haven't had a chance to look into this, but it's still on my list.

At Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:48:57 +0400, Roman Klochkov wrote:
>  Can we upgrade GTK version in the next windows bundle?
> Or at least GLib and GObject.
> 
> I tried  
> http://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=pygi-aio-3.4.2rev11.7z
> &can=2&q= libraries on win32 racket 5.3.6 (simply replaced dll's) -- works 
> just fine. But I have no version for win64. Besides, I dislike idea, that 
> win32 user should manually patch racket with third-party libs for 
> GObjectIntrospection to work. 
> 
> I can't make independent libraries for libgirepository-1.0.0-1.dll, because it 
> use glib-2.0-0.dll and windows doesn't have version in the name of dll (like 
> .so.1, .so.2 ...). When Racket starts, its libraries have maximum priority, 
> and there are already old glib there.
> 
> 
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