Re: installing a gtkmm development environment

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:

> On 5/2/06, Mitchell Laks <mlaks verizon net> wrote:
>
> > Dear gtkmm cognisenti!
> >
> > Now that I have switched to gtkmm (as well as gtk2-perl), I have 
> > tried to
> > compile and install a model environment. I have not found any howto 
> > so this
> > is what I did and this is where I am stuck.
>
>
> welcome to gtkmm :)
>
> > and set up a user for development.
> >
> > I decided to use --preferences=/home/mlaks/stable_gtk/local as my 
> > ./configure
> > option.
>
>
> I assume this was just a typo, but if not, that should probably be
> --prefix, not --preferences
>
> In general, I find that the easiest way to set up a development
> environment of gtkmm is with jhbuild.  For a brief overview of using
> jhbuild, you might want to check out
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/apg.html.  By
> default, jhbuild will checkout and install everything from cvs, but if
> you want to only work with released versions, you can do that too. 
> You'll need to edit your ~/.jhbuildrc file to point to a .modules file
> that builds tarball modules instead of cvs modules.  For example, to
> build the versions that were released with gnome 2.14.1, you would use
> the .modules file here:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/2.14.1/ (there's even a
> sample .jhbuildrc configuration file in that directory that you could
> use as a starting point).
>
> > I realize that I have to set up environmental variable
> > LD_LOAD_LIBRARY=/home/mlaks/stable_gtk/local/lib
> > I realize that I have to set up environmental variable
> > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/mlaks/stable_gtk/local/lib/pkgconfig
>
>
> If you use jhbuild to build and install the packages from source, you
> can then run 'jhbuild shell' to do development.  This will start a
> shell that has all these environment variables set up correctly for
> you.  You shouldn't need to remove any of your distribution packages.
>
> By the way, does Debian really not ship 2.8.x yet?  Or is there some
> other reason you're trying to install from source?
Linux plasma 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 5.10 "Badger Breezy" (is what it says on the virtual terminal, 
not sure what to use to show the version of the distro itself.)

$ apt-cache search libgtkmm-2.8

Gives me no results.

$ apt-cache search libgtkmm

Shows libgtkmm-2.4 as the newest package in the "standard" 
repositories.  By standard, I mean I haven't added any except for the 
universe and security repos that come commented out.

...and it still says it after an apt-get update.

So yeah, this version hasn't got 2.8 yet.

> good luck
> Jonner
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