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6632 :: NiGui for Nim : It works fine (which is cool) but does it compile statically ?

[2020-08-02T14:49:52+02:00]

Serge (orginal) [2020-08-02T14:49:52+02:00] view original

NiGui for Nim : It works fine but does it compile statically (can I distribute an app based on Nim/NiGui without shipping external libs/dlls: (GTK+ etc.) and without the user having to install GTK or other extra dll)

https://github.com/trustable-code/NiGui

Yardanico (orginal) [2020-08-02T14:51:25+02:00] view original

I'm sorry for asking, but for what reason you can't open issues to ask in NiGui instead?

NiGui uses GTK on Linux yes, because that's installed on 99.999% of all desktop Linux installations. You don't have to ship your own GTK since your app will just use the ones from the distribution.

Serge (orginal) [2020-08-02T14:57:43+02:00] view original

Thanks! it is not an issue. it works fine. It was a simple question. If I thought it was an issue, I would have opened one on Github (as I have often done).

:-)

Thanks!

Yardanico (orginal) [2020-08-02T14:59:20+02:00] view original

Well, the thing is that "issue" on GitHub is really a misnamed thing, it can be used to ask questions, it's not only for "issues" :)

Serge (orginal) [2020-08-02T18:00:11+02:00] view original

All right.

Thanks!

Trustable (orginal) [2020-08-02T19:15:43+02:00] view original
The Nim code of NiGui is linked statically into the executable.

Backends:
- On Windows: The WinAPI is always present.
- On Linux: GTK usually is installed by default on desktop Linux distributions.
- On macOS: Here it's more difficult, since NiGui is not yet ported to Cocoa. (Open for contributions, since I don't have macOS.).

Serge (orginal) [2020-08-02T21:48:15+02:00] view original

Thanks!