Re: Building GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

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