Re: installing a gtkmm development environment

[Mitchell Laks <mlaks verizon net>]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:41, you wrote:
> I assume this was just a typo, but if not, that should probably be
> --prefix, not --preferences

Correct, I was writing that line from memory...

> 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

Thank you for the reference to jhbuild which I had seen references to - but
not actually seen discussed. I downloaded the information and am reading it.

I will set up such a system, but I am afraid it is not what I really want.

I want to be able to use all the resources in each of the tarballs -
documentation, examples etc. It is nice to have each of the tarballs laid out
in separate subdirectories so that  I can run examples, look a the code, run
demos  -without worrying if the distro left out stuff or put it in some
obscure place that "makes sense" for some reason.

I really would prefer to see what I need to do to get the whole set of
tarballs working... I will try the jhbuild though...

By the way the cairo tarball needs a patch to compile. I found it on google
and used that and it worked.

Mitchell

> 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?
>
> good luck
> Jonner

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