Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:35:53 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20051102.143553.258141660.garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
To: robertr at rftp.com
Cc: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Alternatives to Val_GtkObject_sink?
From: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
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Dear Robert,

> Val_GtkObject_sink seems to be the correct way to "wrap" or "register" 
> a pointer to a newly instantiated [C-based] widget... as this function 
> now has been effectively "un-exported" from dlllablgtk2.dll in the 
> Windows binary distribution of LablGTK, what are the available (and 
> recommended) options to anyone trying to interface C-written widgets 
> (as most of them are) to LablGTK?

Well, in fact this is not the case: it is exported.

Or are you talking about the absence of dlllablgtk2.lib?
You're perfectly free to build it yourself and distribute it with your
library... It's not even difficult to do, once you've got the required
Gtk headers, which you will need anyway to compile a Gtk extension.

And in any case, this won't affect your end users.
Or could you explain to me in which situation the problem appears
(i.e. you need dlllablgtk2.lib, but don't compile any Gtk C code?)
Then we could discuss this addition (not hard to do!)

Jacques