Re: Getting a GTK3 program to compile on Visual Studio 2012

[Kolya Kosenko <kolya kosenko gmail com>]

Hello fr33domlover,

On 01/08/2014 08:48 PM, fr33domlover wrote:
> I've been trying to port my GTK2 program to GTK3, but I've ran into a
> problem:
> Visual Studio 2012, which handles GTK2 just fine, claims some glib header
> files have syntax errors.

Your error is very similar to my error when I tried to port wxGTK/Win32 
from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3 using Visual C++.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.general/25565

> I noted that Codeblocks&MinGW compile the same code under the same
> configuration just fine and do not report any problems with GTK3 header
> files.

Interesting, I didn't try to compile wxGTK3/Win32 with MinGW yet.

> Here's a link to the compilation errors I get when trying to compile a
> basic gtk3 program with VS2012: http://pastebin.com/ThZpwVmg

Compare your first compilation error:
Error   1       error C2143: syntax error : missing '{' before 'const' 
c:\example-gtk3-vs2012-project-master\include\glib\gutils.h     122 
1       gtk3test

My first compilation error:
1>C:\proging\gtk3\include\glib-2.0\glib/gutils.h(128) : error C2143:
syntax error : missing '{' before 'const'

> Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I think that it is a bug in GTK+3/Win32 API. As workaround you could try 
to compile your C files as C++ files:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/032xwy55.aspx

It would be nice to know what Tarnyko think about these errors.

Regards,
Kolya.