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On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:48:54 -0500, captaindet wrote: > thanks for the info. however, i am not familiar with this project. to be honest, it is not quite clear to me what MSYS2 is good for or who would need it. the dox are very slim. so before i dig too deep into what looks like a lot of trouble/work, may i ask you this: > > after original & package installation & setup & whatnot, will i end up with a dedicated gtk3 folder somewhere that acts as a (self-sufficient) runtime environment - i.e., will i be able to just zip this folder, distribute it to colleagues, unzip it and set the windows path to include the gtk/bin and then gkt 3.14+ can be used on this computer? > > if not, MSYS2 would be of no use to me. > > /det http:// sourcef orge.net/ projects/ msys2/ click Files tab you will see Base and REPOS. click Base and you will see X86_64 and i686. which version of msys2 do you want/need? if you need 64bit select x86_64 else if you need 32bit select i686 There is an installer you can use, I opt to use the tar.xz file and unpack it in the root dir to avoid spaces in dir/filenames. Run the Drive: \{msys32, msys64}\msys2_ shell.bat file. It will initialize some things then you close window when done. Run the Drive: \{msys32, msys64}\msys2_ shell.bat file again use pacman package manager to install packages. type the following pacman command to download gtk3 and its dependencies. $ pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gtk3 resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: mingw-w64-i686-harfbuzz will be installed before its mingw-w64-i686-freetype dependency warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: mingw-w64-i686-cairo will be installed before its mingw-w64-i686-freetype dependency warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: mingw-w64-i686-fontconfig will be installed before its mingw-w64-i686-freetype dependency Packages (42) db-5.3.28-2 gdbm-1.11-3 libdb-5.3.28-2 libgdbm-1.11-3 mingw-w64- i686- adwaita-icon- theme-3. 15.1-1 mingw-w64-i686-atk-2.15.4-1 mingw-w64-i686-bzip2-1.0.6-3 mingw-w64-i686-cairo-1.14.0-3 mingw-w64-i686-expat-2.1.0-4 mingw-w64- i686- fontconfig-2. 11.1-3 mingw-w64- i686- freetype-2. 5.5-3 mingw-w64- i686- gcc-libs-4. 9.2-4 mingw-w64- i686- gdk-pixbuf2-2. 31.1-2 mingw-w64- i686- gettext-0. 19.4-2 mingw-w64-i686-glib2-2.42.2-2 mingw-w64-i686-gmp-6.0.0-2 mingw-w64- i686- gnome- common-3. 14.0-1 mingw-w64- i686- harfbuzz-0. 9.39-1 mingw-w64- i686-hicolor- icon-theme- 0.14-1 mingw-w64- i686-icon- naming- utils-0. 8.90-1 mingw-w64- i686-jasper-1. 900.1-3 mingw-w64-i686-jbigkit-2.1-1 mingw-w64- i686- json-glib-1. 0.2-2 mingw-w64- i686- libcroco-0. 6.8-2 mingw-w64-i686-libffi-3.2.1-2 mingw-w64-i686-libiconv-1.14-3 mingw-w64- i686- libjpeg- turbo-1. 4.0-2 mingw-w64-i686-libpng-1.6.16-1 mingw-w64- i686- librsvg-2. 40.6-1 mingw-w64-i686-libtiff-4.0.3-4 mingw-w64- i686- libwinpthread- git-5. 0.0.4455. 32db221-1 mingw-w64-i686-libxml2-2.9.2-5 mingw-w64-i686-lzo2-2.09-1 mingw-w64-i686-pango-1.36.8-2 mingw-w64-i686-pixman-0.32.6-2 mingw-w64- i686-shared- mime-info- 1.4-1 mingw-w64-i686-xz-5.2.1-1 mingw-w64-i686-zlib-1.2.8-6 perl-5.20.2-1 perl-XML-Parser-2.43-1 perl-XML-Simple-2.20-2 mingw-w64-i686-gtk3-3.14.9-2 Total Installed Size: 229.98 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Type Y and pacman will download and install gtk3 in the Drive: \{msys32, msys64}\ {mingw32, mingw64} folder. Pack the appropriate mingw{32,64} folder and you have a gtk3 runtime. (this will include c library and include files, I will leave it to you to separate the wheat from the chaff). Alternatively, I just set my path to include Drive: \{msys32, msys64}\ {mingw32, mingw64}\bin, then use pacman to update my files.