Re: Compiling gtkmm

[Daniel Boles <dboles src gmail com>]

On 10 March 2017 at 12:32, Krzysztof Piecuch via gtkmm-list <gtkmm-list gnome org> wrote:

Hi guys, it's my first time contributing here. My name's Chris and I wanted to implement ustring method which fixes non-unicode ustrings (any particular reason it's not yet implemented?)

Anyway, I have implemented it, but I have trouble with compiling. ./configure says gtkmm needs sigc++-3.0, as written below:

configure: error: Package requirements (sigc++-3.0 >= 2.99.5 glib-2.0 >= 2.50.0 gobject-2.0 >= 2.50.0 gmodule-2.0 >= 2.50.0) were not met:

No package 'sigc++-3.0' found

I looked for sigc++-3.0 and found out that there is no stable release of it (see link below)

https://github.com/GNOME/libsigcplusplus/blob/master/NEWS

Am I correct that we are using non-stable library? If so, which version of a library is best to use?

Yours,

Chris

sigc++ 3 is the current unstable dev version, in branch master. It is not released yet. The same is true for the master branches of glibmm and gtkmm.

How are you compiling glibmm/gtkmm? If you want stable, you should be compiling branches glibmm-2-50 and gtkmm-3-22 respectively - not master. In jhbuild, these are called glibmm-2.0 and gtkmm-3, or similar; the unsuffixed modules represent the master branches.