continuing with my multi-platform app

I have this app which runs on multiple platforms, windows,linux, aix, solaris, hpux, and hopefully soon z/linux

anyhow

it was built as a console app to minimize the runtime dependencies. the shell script prompt for all the parms not specified, has --help support, etc..

but my users find the commandline ugly and want a gui wrapper..

so we have added a wxPerl shell to launch the shell script. but it depends on gtk and a bunch of other system files, that may NOT be installed. I had the same problem with the commandline for xpath, and was able to package a workable copy of the libexpat.so for the duration of my runtime.

I don't want to try that for the gui.. some 25 so's at least.

so, if I write another shell script to launch the gui, how can I detect if the dependent stuff is installed or not? gtk, ... many of the systems this app would run on are servers, and the gui components are intentionally not installed.

In reply to how to detect gtk installed or not by sdetweil

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