It turns out that running ldd mygtkapp.exe
(with the ldd
provided with MinGW) gave me a listing of all the dlls required to let it run. To get only the dlls which were gtk dependencies (and not e.g. Win32 dlls) I used the following command: ldd mygtkapp.exe | sed -n 's/\([^ ]*\) => \/mingw.*/\1/p' | sort
. My program used the Haskell bindings, so the dependencies might be a bit different, but this is what I got:
libatk-1.0-0.dll
libbz2-1.dll
libcairo-2.dll
libcairo-gobject-2.dll
libepoxy-0.dll
libexpat-1.dll
libffi-6.dll
libfontconfig-1.dll
libfreetype-6.dll
libgcc_s_seh-1.dll
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
libgdk-3-0.dll
libgio-2.0-0.dll
libglib-2.0-0.dll
libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
libgobject-2.0-0.dll
libgraphite2.dll
libgthread-2.0-0.dll
libgtk-3-0.dll
libharfbuzz-0.dll
libiconv-2.dll
libintl-8.dll
libpango-1.0-0.dll
libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
libpcre-1.dll
libpixman-1-0.dll
libpixman-1-0.dll
libpng16-16.dll
libstdc++-6.dll
libwinpthread-1.dll
zlib1.dll
Note also that there are a couple of other things you need to do to make a completely standalone application, particularly if you're using stock icons; for more details on this, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/34673860/7345298. Note however that I needed to copy the 16x16 directory instead of the scalable directory.
EDIT: I've actually found the following command to be very useful as well: ldd mygtkapp.exe | grep '\/mingw.*\.dll' -o | xargs -I{} cp "{}" .
. This command actually copies the dlls to the current directory obviating the need to laboriously do it yourself.
ntldd
and trial and error. You can test it by setting your PATH to be empty and then running your app. But these days I use static compilation in my own build system so no DLLs are needed. – David Grayson