How to distribute a GTK+ application on Windows?

Question

I have installed GTK+ (specifically GTK3) via MSYS and MinGW on Windows. I now want to copy the GTK+ dlls to my application directory so that it can be run on a computer wit

Answer 1

The following procedure can be used to obtain the necessary DLLs:

1. Download Listdlls
2. Leave your application running
3. Open the PowerShell window where Listdlls.exe is located
4. Use the command ./Listdlls.exe application_name.exe
5. Copy all listed paths to a text file
6. Delete all lines that contain "C:\WINDOWS*" in your text file
7. Leave only the lines that contain "C:\msys64*...*.dll" in your text file
8. Open Msys2 Shell
9. Use $ cp "paste_all_paths_from_dlls" "destination_path"

Cautions before using the $ cp command. In your text file, change "\" to "/" in the paths and remove line breaks.