Gorshkov wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tml@xxxxxx> wrote: >>> Well, it is kinda assumed that people interested in developing >>> GTK+-using software have a broad understanding of concepts like >>> pkg-config, make, shell commands, environment variables PATH and If you mean by "broad" a very basic knowledge of those things then I am ready to go. Even so it still takes me longer to figure out some things related to this thread. I can very much relate to some of those who have participated in this thread. I might not be totally in the dark but I do find that many times instructions are written for the experts and sometimes leave out small details that might not be so obvious for non-experts. >> Well, all the more thanks for having the patience to explain it to me >> anyway, then. That is why I liked my old boss in the group where I worked on some multiplatform software and had to learn a lot about some of the unix tools. He was always patient with me in explaining things that might be obvious to the experts like him. >>> For people who really don't have a clue about stuff like that, a MinGW >>> and MSYS based approach with command-line tools is never going to work Now having some experience in both sides (Borland IDE and command line gcc) I will have to disagree. I am convinced that for those who have at least some willingness to learn, that the above approach is very much within reach for beginners if they are presented with information that doesn't just scare them away. > So who actually needs an IDE? I'm using emacs (which performs 99% of an > IDE's functions, and I'm using it precicely because it allows me to have > the same setup in windows that I do under linux. you sound like my old boss. Considering the response to this thread, I am inclined to try to make a collection of things that helped me get started on this subject. Maybe this will be useful to others like me. As a minimum I would suggest that anyone wanting to get started with GTK on Windows do the following. With these items I was able to get started learning GTK and do some sample programming. I just tested my own instructions by wiping my computer and following my instructions. 1. from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml click on Sourceforge File Release and get a. Automated MinGW Installer b. from MSYS Base System, the Current Release: MSYS-1.0.10.exe installer c. from MSYS Supplementary Tools, the Current Release: msysDTK-1.0.1.exe installer 2. from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/ get a. Gtk+ 2.12.9 Development Environment Revision 2 b. Glade 3.4.3 for Windows Revision 1 (zip) 3. from http://cairographics.org/releases/ get pixman-0.10.0.tar.gz without pixman, $ pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 gives this error Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path. 4. get gtkmm http://www.gustin.be/win32/gtkmm-win32-2.12.7.zip I found this one in the gtkmm list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2008-April/msg00020.html 5. from http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/56940/libglade.html get libglade-2.6.2 Even though item 2a above comes with libglade, the libglade has a bug in the windows environment that will cause a runtime error "The procedure entry point glade_xml_construct_from_buffer could not be located in the dynamic link library libglade-2.0-0.dll". With a little Googling I found that was fixed but the fix isn't in the the windows installer. 6. install MinGW. in the choose components, select g++ compiler in addition to what is already selected. do not select mingw make. you will notice during the msys postinstall, a funny message indicating that msys does not like the mingw make "Oh joy, you do not have c:/MinGW/bin/make.exe. Keep it that way." 7. install msys 8. install msysDTK 9. install Gtk. I installed it in c:\GTK 10. using msys, unzip and untar pixman. I put it in /d/pixman-0.10.0 11. using msys, build pixman with cd /d/pixman-0.10.0 ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install If everything worked this far, then pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0 should give a string of compile options and not the error message about pkg-config search path. 12. unzip Glade then copy the 4 folders into c:\GTK 13. unzip gtkmm-win32 and copy the 4 folders into c:\GTK 14. using msys, unzip and untar libglade. I put it in /d/libglade-2.6.2 15. Edit D:\libglade-2.6.2\glade\glade.def. add line glade_xml_construct_from_buffer 16. using msys, build libglade with cd /d/libglade-2.6.2 ./configure --prefix=/c/GTK make make install I found a libglade tutorial at http://www.micahcarrick.com/12-24-2007/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-1.html libglademm http://www.pebble.org.uk/programming/libglademm_simple http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglademm/2.6/ Damon Register _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
