Re: Building GTK+ 3.0 with Visual Studio 2013

[Syed Akbar <syed_akbar gmx net>]

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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