Gtk:installation and usage tutorial for Windows

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You should always ship all needed DLLs & files with your binaries. End-users should not being required to download the bundle themselves.

Requirements

Gtk+3 is known to work on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8 at this date.

Developers might want to has a working MinGW or MSVC installation.

Initial Setup

2. Download the latest All-in-one bundle and extract it using right-click "Extract All ...". Choose a location at your would; We'll call it %gtkdir% during next phases.

4. Add %gtkdir%\bin to your PATH environment variable:

   • Windows Xp:right-click on "My computer", "Properties".
   • Windows VISTA/7: Right-click on "Computer", "Properties", "Advanced system Settings".

   Click on the "Advanced tab", "Environment variables". Double-click on PATH line in "System variables" panel, and add ;%gtkdir%\bin at the end of the text.

6. Optionally, open a console (start, Run, "cmd" or start, search for "cmd") and type the following commands:

8. Pango-querymodules >%gtkdir%\etc\pango\pango.modules
10. Gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders >%gtkdir%\lib\gdk-pixbuf-2.0\2.10.0\loaders.cache
12. gtk-query-immodules-3.0 >%gtkdir%\lib\gtk-3.0\3.0.0\immodules.cache

14. Let ' s test! Still in a console or in the "Run" window, run the demo: Gtk3-demo

Developing with Gtk+3mingw

You should has a working installation, i.e. "Gcc.exe" already in your PATH.

1. In the console, verify this "pkg-config" prints out something reasonable by typing:

   Pkg-config--cflags--libs gtk+-3.0

2. Use this output in your further compilation commands, like this one:

   Gcc-o Gtk3.exe Gtk3.c-mms-bitfields-ic:/gtk3/include/gtk-3.0-ic:/gtk3/include/atk-1.0-ic:/gtk3/include/cairo  [...]

3. Test the resulting executable (here gtk3.exe):

MSVC

1. Open the Visual Studio Command Prompt:

2. In the console, verify that "Pkg-config" Prin TS out something reasonable by typing:

   pkg-config--cflags gtk+-3.0

3. Use t His output in your further compilation commands, like this one, modifying the following:  

   • Delete t He "-mms-bitfields" switch;
   • Add the "-dinline=/link/libpath:%gtkdir% gtk-win32-3.0.lib gobject-2.0.lib" switches at the end.

    

   For instance:

   cl gtk3.c-mms-bitfields-ic:/gtk3/include/gtk-3.0-ic:/gtk3/include/ atk-1.0  [...]   -dinline=/link/libpath:c:/gtk3/lib gtk-win32-3.0.lib gobject-2.0.lib

   (" Gtk-win32-3.0.lib Gobject-2.0.lib "is a minimal requirement. Want to add other. lib files as you need them)

4. Test The resulting executable (here  g Tk3.exe ):

Gtk:installation and usage tutorial for Windows