Re: This issues on compiling GTK+ from source and using GTK+ 3.x, GTK+ 2.x, and GTK+ 1.2 on one computer.

[Hongyi Zhao <hongyi zhao gmail com>]

On 11/01/2012 06:57 AM, onetmt wrote:
> on my system (Debian Sid):

I use Debian Squeeze 6.0.6, which is the stable distribution, not the 
testing one used by you.  The reason that I don't use the

Debian Sid/testing is that the virtualbox within Debian testing currently will not let me run the Win 7 smoothly on my pc, I don't know the reason;-(


> ii  libgtk-3-0:i386 	3.4.2-4
> ii  libgtk-3-bin	3.4.2-4
> ii  libgtk-3-common	3.4.2-4
> ii  libgtk-3-dev        3.4.2-4
> ii  libgtk-3-doc        3.4.2-4
> ii  libgtk2.0-0:i386    2.24.10-2
> ii  libgtk2.0-bin       2.24.10-2
> ii  libgtk2.0-cil       2.12.10-4
> ii  libgtk2.0-common    2.24.10-2
> ii  libgtk2.0-dev       2.24.10-2

In my case, the Debian Squeeze/stable, I only have the GTK+ 2.x from the 
repository, unless I use the mixed repository from stable and testing.  
But, according to my experience, use a mixed repository is dangerous, it 
will bring more and more packages dependence issues with cann't be 
solved easily.  So, in my case, if I want to use GTK+ 3.x, the best way 
should be compile it manually.

> So, as you can see, apt-get can let them coexist (all in all, apt has
> the power of super-cow, hasn't it?); no need to recompile everything
> from scratch.
>
> But if I compile my app on my system:
>
> $ ldd gtag
> 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb7745000)
> 	libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgtk-3.so.0 (0xb7260000)
> 	libgdk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgdk-3.so.0 (0xb71e2000)
> 	libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb71bf000)
> 	...
>
> Should I want to link it to gtk-2, all I have to do is to change
> compilation and linking options in order to point to gtk-2 (but I don't
> want; I like new features in gtk-3:)


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