[pygtk] PyGTK and Windows 2000

[cwr at netcom.co.uk]

Quoting Dieter Verfaillie <dieterv at optionexplicit.be>:

> On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:08:02 +0000, cwr at netcom.co.uk wrote:
>> I've been trying to install Python on Windows 2000 SP4, and have run into
>> the traditional "DLL load failed" error.
>
> From  
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/pygtk/2.24/pygtk-all-in-one.README:
>
> - In theory, Windows 2000 should be supported, but in practice the  
> gtk+ binaries
>   on ftp.gnome.org are affected by libgio-2.0-0.dll needing the  
> freeaddrinfo()
>   function which is only available starting from Windows XP:
>
>     - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637565
>     - related bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610502#c6
>     - related bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623128
>     - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737931%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>
> The all-in-one installer is based on those binaries, so sadly we  
> can't support
> Windows 2000...
>
>> The installer files are:
>>
>> Size     Name
>> 15970304 python-2.7.2.msi
>> 33091012 pygtk-all-in-one-2.22.5.win32-py2.7.msi
>>  872816 WindowsXP-KB975337-x86-ENU.exe
>
> ... which was not yet discovered at the time of 2.22.5. Newer aio installer
> versions (don't remember which version exactly) should detect this  
> and present
> an error message.
>
> One possible solution -if you *really* need to stick with Windows 2000- would
> be to compile the complete GTK+/GLib/... stack with MSVC and use the  
> stand-alone
> installers for pycairo, pygobject and pygtk. But with that, I can't help.
>
> Sorry to bring bad news,
> mvg,
> Dieter
>

Thanks anyway - I don't think I can cope with a full rebuild, as I don't use
Windows and simply wanted to port a python app.  There's a message, somewhere,
that replacing gdiplus.dll from the WinXP package would get PyGTK running, but
apparently not so.

Are there any older all-in-one packages that might run, with older versions
of Python?  I've looked but can't find any.

Will