Statically linking GTK+ libraries in windows

Question

I have installed GCC and GTK+. Its working fine, but i need to statically link GTK+ libraries with my application (it's a small application) so that there exist only one '.exe'.

Answer 1

mingw-cross-env has fixes to build gtk and all related libs statically

Answer 2

The correct answer would be two words: not supported. Really, if you want to distribute your application, being it 2 or 100000 lines, just bind a copy of GTK+ with it.

Answer 3

It is supported with a few minor issues (like having trouble finding configuration files), but you will have to compile GTK+ yourself! (the default binaries do not include static libraries)

See this mailing-list thread for more information on this issue.