Re: Building GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013

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• From: Syed Akbar <syed_akbar gmx net>
• To: gtk-list gnome org
• Subject: Re: Building GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013
• Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:52:15 +0100

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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 TuneUpUtilities 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:-

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:-

Good luck !John_______________________________________________gtk-list mailing listgtk-list gnome org

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http://hexchat.github.io/gtk-win32/