GTK: about Building GTK+ 3.0

Syed Akbar <syed_akbar gmx net> · Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:52:15 +0100

Thanks for your reply, John. I have the problem that GTK drag'n'drop 
does not work on Windows 7 while Kaspersky Security 2014 or TuneUp
Utilities 2014 is running. I just want to debug into the GTK source to 
see if I can fix it myself... maybe a too ambitious aim.
Am 08.02.2014 10:24, schrieb John Emmas:

On 07/02/2014 22:16, Syed Akbar wrote:

what is the fastest way to build GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013 or 
to include the source files into my project for debugging purposes?

As I mentioned earlier, building from source isn't something for a 
beginner. This is especially true if you want to build with VS2013.
You need to keep in mind that it isn't simply a matter of building 
GTK+. You'd also need to build all the libraries on which GTK+
depends, as well as all the libraries on which they depend etc, etc. 
At the very least you'd need to build:-
        Gtk+
        Pango
        Cairo
        Atk
        Glib

but you'd almost certainly need others too - such as sigc++ / pixman / 
i18n / freetype / gdk-pixbuf and a whole host of others. Having said 
all that, there's an open-source project called HexChat which looks 
like it might have been built with VS2013:-
http://hexchat.readthedocs.org/en/latest/building.html

If you visit that page you'll notice that they provide pre-built 
bundles for x86 and x64. I haven't downloaded them but (hopefully)
those bundles would include everything you'll need to get you 
started. And (BIG BONUS HERE) a few lines further down there's a 
helpful guide for building the entire GTK+ stack with VS2013 !!

OTOH, most of the official libraries contain VS projects but they're 
predominantly for VC++ 9 (i.e. Visual Studio 2008). So alternatively, 
you could download the free version of VS2008 and build with that:-
http://win.freewareupdate.com/download-visual-studio-express/10002/

Good luck !

John
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