(0) Why compiling from source Because of the license. Gtkmm and most of its dependencies are LGPL. If I distribute proprietary programs, dynamically linked against gtkmm, and also distribute the libraries, then I will need to also distribute the source code of the LGPL libraries, either together with the binaries or upon request.
I can only be sure that I can provide the correct and complete source code if I compile the LGPL libraries myself. If I used a precompiled package, the producer of that package could have introduced a change (e.g. to make the thing compile at all on windows), but I would not know about that change and could not fulfill my obligations from distributing LGPL software. Consequently, I am not overly interested in compiling libraries from source when the license does not require me to provide the source code (like zlib). In this case I will happily use a precompiled library. Despite that, compiling from source was often more convenient than finding a compatible binary, so this guide also contains instructions how to compile most non-lgpl libraries. (1) Set up development environment (1a) Python Python is needed to install glib on the build system. Python can be downloaded from https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.8/python-2.7.8.msi . Install it in the default location (C:\Python27) (1b) MinGW and msys Get the installer from http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe . Do not click on anything on this page. Sourceforge downloads are surrounded by scam advertisements. The download of the installer starts automatically. Execute the installer. Choose the following components: In "Basic Setup" choose mingw32-base, mingw32-gcc-g++, msys-base. In "All Packages", choose additionally: - mingw32-libz (class dev) - mingw32-pthreads-w32 (all three) - msys-m4 (class bin) - msys-patch (class bin) - msys-perl (class bin) - msys-wget (class bin) - msys-vim (class bin) Menu Installation -> ApplyChanges -> Apply Execute the postinstall batch file \MinGW\msys\1.0\postinstall\pi.bat. Create a desktop Link to c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat. Start it. Create a file named .profile in the home directory of this shell, using cat or vim or some other editor that can save text files with unix line endings. Contents: export PYTHON=/c/Python27/python.exe Restart the shell and make sure that setting worked. Inspect the PATH environment variable. Make sure it does not contain another directory with compilers or unix tools apart from the MinGW/msys installation. Decide on an installation prefix directory. I use /opt/gtk and add /opt/gtk/bin to the PATH in .profile (2) zlib zlib does not require source code distribution, and a binary from MinGW is already installed: mkdir -p /opt/gtk/{bin,include,lib} cp /mingw/bin/zlib1.dll /opt/gtk/bin/ cp /mingw/include/z{lib,conf}.h /opt/gtk/include/ cp -v /mingw/lib/libz.*a /opt/gtk/lib/ (3) libpng Homepage: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/libpng/libpng-1.6.12.tar.xz?download tar xf libpng-1.6.12.tar.xz cd libpng-1.6.12 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install cd .. (4) libjpeg Homepage: http://ijg.org/ wget http://ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v9a.tar.gz tar xf jpegsrc.v9a.tar.gz cd jpeg-9a ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "this software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (5) freetype Homepage: http://freetype.org/ wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2 tar xf freetype-2.5.3.tar.bz2 cd freetype-2.5.3 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "the software is based in part of the work of the FreeType Team" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (6) libiconv Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ wget http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz tar xf libiconv-1.14.tar.gz cd libiconv-1.14 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "libiconv is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cp COPYING.LIB /opt/gtk/GNU_LIBRARY_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE_Version_2.txt cd .. (7) libtiff Homepage: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-4.0.3.tar.gz tar xf tiff-4.0.3.tar.gz cd tiff-4.0.3 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "the software is based in part on libtiff. See share/doc/tiff-4.0.3/COPYRIGHT." >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (8) pkg-config Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ wget http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz tar xf pkg-config-0.28.tar.gz cd pkg-config-0.28 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ --with-internal-glib make make install cd .. (9) gettext Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/ wget http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/gettext/gettext-0.19.2.tar.xz tar xf gettext-0.19.2.tar.xz cd gettext-0.19.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "the software is based in part on libintl from the gettext runtime which is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (9) pcre Homepage: http://www.pcre.org/ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.35.tar.bz2 tar xf pcre-8.35.tar.bz2 cd pcre-8.35 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ echo "the software is based in part on PCRE which is distributed under the PCRE LICENSE, see share/doc/pcre/LICENCE" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt (10) libxml2 Homepage: http://xmlsoft.org/ wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz tar xf libxml2-2.9.1.tar.gz cd libxml2-2.9.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ --without-python make echo "the software is based in part on libxml2, see share/doc/libxml2-2.9.1/Copyright" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (10) expat Homepage: http://www.libexpat.org/ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expat/expat-2.1.0.tar.gz tar xf expat-2.1.0.tar.gz cd expat-2.1.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install cp COPYING /opt/gtk/COPYRIGHT.expat.txt echo "the software is based in part on expat, see COPYRIGHT.expat.txt" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (11) fontconfig Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/ wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.11.1.tar.bz2 tar xf fontconfig-2.11.1.tar.bz2 cd fontconfig-2.11.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install cp COPYING /opt/gtk/COPYRIGHT.fontconfig.txt echo "the software is based in part on fontconfig, see COPYRIGHT.fontconfig.txt" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (12) libffi Homepage: https://sourceware.org/libffi/ wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-3.1.tar.gz tar xf libffi-3.1.tar.gz cd libffi-3.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install cp LICENSE /opt/gtk/COPYRIGHT.libffi.txt echo "the software is based in part on libffi, see COPYRIGHT.libffi.txt" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (13) glib Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.40/glib-2.40.0.tar.xz tar xf glib-2.40.0.tar.xz cd glib-2.40.0 glib does not search for headers in prefix/include/. This makes it necessary to add the following environment variables to .profile: export CFLAGS=-I/opt/gtk/include export CXXFLAGS="$CFLAGS" export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/gtk/lib restart the shell. On windows glib uses a function rand_s without checking if it is available. However, neither is this function declared in MinGW headers, nor is it present in the Microsoft runtime DLL msvcrt.dll on my windows 7. Therefore, I have to modify the glib code that uses it. Here is the patch: --- glib/grand.c 2014-09-03 19:56:34 +0000 +++ glib/grand.c 2014-09-03 20:03:28 +0000 @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ #ifdef G_OS_WIN32 #include <stdlib.h> +#include <process.h> #endif /** @@ -209,8 +210,6 @@ * either from `/dev/urandom` (if existing) or from the current time * (as a fallback). * - * On Windows, the seed is taken from rand_s(). - * * Returns: the new #GRand */ GRand* @@ -261,10 +260,12 @@ seed[3] = getppid (); } #else /* G_OS_WIN32 */ - gint i; - - for (i = 0; i < G_N_ELEMENTS (seed); i++) - rand_s (&seed[i]); + GTimeVal now; + g_get_current_time (&now); + seed[0] = now.tv_sec; + seed[1] = now.tv_usec; + seed[2] = getpid (); + seed[3] = 0; #endif return g_rand_new_with_seed_array (seed, 4); ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "glib is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (14) pixman Homepage: ??? wget http://cairographics.org/releases/pixman-0.32.6.tar.gz tar xf pixman-0.32.6.tar.gz cd pixman-0.32.6 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install cp COPYING /opt/gtk/COPYRIGHT.pixman.txt echo "the software is based in part on pixman, see COPYRIGHT.pixman.txt" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (15) gdk-pixbuf Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/stable/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gdk-pixbuf/2.30/gdk-pixbuf-2.30.8.tar.xz tar xf gdk-pixbuf-2.30.8.tar.xz cd gdk-pixbuf-2.30.8 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "gdk-pixbuf is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (16) cairo Homepage: http://cairographics.org/ wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.12.16.tar.xz tar xf cairo-1.12.16.tar.xz cd cairo-1.12.16 Somehow cairo thinks that ssize_t is not typedefed, although it is. This results in a compilation error. The fix is to comment out the typedef to ssize_t in file util/cairo-missing/cairo-missing.h ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "cairo is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (17) atk Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/atk/2.10/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/atk/2.10/atk-2.10.0.tar.xz tar xf atk-2.10.0.tar.xz cd atk-2.10.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "atk is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (18) pango Homepage: http://www.pango.org/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pango/1.36/pango-1.36.7.tar.xz tar xf pango-1.36.7.tar.xz cd pango-1.36.7 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "pango is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (19) gtk+ Homepage: http://www.gtk.org/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/3.12/gtk+-3.12.2.tar.xz tar xf gtk+-3.12.2.tar.xz cd gtk+-3.12.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ The Makefile in gdk contains a dependency on gdk.def but no rule to generate the gdk.def file. This patch removes gdk.def from any dependencies: --- gtk+-3.12.2-orig/gdk/Makefile 2014-09-03 22:58:53 +0000 +++ gtk+-3.12.2/gdk/Makefile 2014-09-03 23:24:29 +0000 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ # $(am__append_1) $(am__append_3) \ # $(am__append_5) $(am__append_7) \ # $(am__append_8) -am__append_6 = -Wl,win32/rc/gdk-win32-res.o -export-symbols $(srcdir)/gdk.def +am__append_6 = -Wl,win32/rc/gdk-win32-res.o #am__append_7 = broadway/libgdk-broadway.la #am__append_8 = wayland/libgdk-wayland.la #am__append_9 = Gdk-3.0.gir @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ libgdk_3_la_LIBADD = $(GDK_DEP_LIBS) $(am__append_1) $(am__append_3) \ $(am__append_5) $(am__append_7) $(am__append_8) libgdk_3_la_LDFLAGS = $(LDADD) $(am__append_6) -libgdk_3_la_DEPENDENCIES = win32/libgdk-win32.la win32/rc/gdk-win32-res.o gdk.d ef +libgdk_3_la_DEPENDENCIES = win32/libgdk-win32.la win32/rc/gdk-win32-res.o #introspection_files = \ # $(filter-out gdkkeysyms-compat.h, $(gdk_public_h_sources)) \ # $(gdk_c_sources) \ @@ -1690,11 +1690,10 @@ #GdkWin32-3.0.gir: libgdk-3.la Gdk-3.0.gir Makefile -install-def-file: gdk.def - mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) - $(INSTALL) $(srcdir)/gdk.def $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/gdk-win32-3.0.def +install-def-file: + true uninstall-def-file: - -rm $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/gdk-win32-3.0.def + true #install-def-file: #uninstall-def-file: Then invoke make. It will fail with /bin/sh: ./gtk-update-icon-cache.exe: Bad file number This is windows user access control preventing something. Start a new shell as administrator, invoke make, wait till that make is past that point, then hit Ctrl-C, and continue with make in the normal shell. A little later there is again a problem wit a .def file dependency. This is a patch for that: --- gtk+-3.12.2-orig/gtk/Makefile 2014-09-03 22:58:56 +0000 +++ gtk+-3.12.2/gtk/Makefile 2014-09-04 00:11:12 +0000 @@ -1071,8 +1071,6 @@ $(INCLUDED_IMMODULE_DEFINE) no_undefined = -no-undefined -gtk_def = gtk.def -gtk_win32_symbols = -export-symbols $(srcdir)/gtk.def gtk_win32_res = gtk-win32-res.o gtk_win32_res_ldflag = -Wl,gtk-win32-res.o #noinst_DATA = gtk-win32-$(GTK_API_VERSION).lib @@ -5969,10 +5967,10 @@ gtk-win32-res.o : gtk-win32.rc $(WINDRES) gtk-win32.rc $@ -install-def-file: gtk.def - $(INSTALL) $(srcdir)/gtk.def $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/gtk-win32-3.0.def +install-def-file: + true uninstall-def-file: - -rm $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/gtk-win32-3.0.def + true #install-def-file: #uninstall-def-file: make make install This fails somewhere in the "demos" subdirectory. Again it is gtk-update-icon-cache that fails, but this time, running as administrator does not help. Assuming that all content below "demos" is non-essential, modifying the Makefile so that SUBDIRS is empty helps and the next invocation of make install finishes. echo "gtk+ is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (20) libsigc++ Homepage: http://libsigc.sourceforge.net/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libsigc++/2.3/libsigc++-2.3.2.tar.xz tar xf libsigc++-2.3.2.tar.xz cd libsigc++-2.3.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "libsigc++ is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (21) glibmm Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/stable/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glibmm/2.40/glibmm-2.40.0.tar.xz tar xf glibmm-2.40.0.tar.xz cd glibmm-2.40.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "glibmm is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (22) cairomm Homepage: http://cairographics.org/cairomm/ wget http://cairographics.org/releases/cairomm-1.11.2.tar.gz tar xf cairomm-1.11.2.tar.gz cd cairomm-1.11.2 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "cairomm is distributed under the terms of the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2" >>/opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (23) Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/pangomm/stable/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/pangomm/2.34/pangomm-2.34.0.tar.xz tar xf pangomm-2.34.0.tar.xz cd pangomm-2.34.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "pangomm is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (24) atkmm Homepage: https://developer.gnome.org/atkmm/stable/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/atkmm/2.22/atkmm-2.22.7.tar.xz tar xf atkmm-2.22.7.tar.xz cd atkmm-2.22.7 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "atkmm is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (25) gtkmm Homepage: http://www.gtkmm.org/en/ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/3.12/gtkmm-3.12.0.tar.xz tar xf gtkmm-3.12.0.tar.xz cd gtkmm-3.12.0 ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk/ make make install echo "gtkmm is distributed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2.1, see share/gettext/intl/COPYING.LIB" >> /opt/gtk/legal.txt cd .. (26) Using gtkmm cat >gtkmmexample.cpp #include <gtkmm.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Application> app = Gtk::Application::create(argc, argv, "org.gtkmm.examples.base"); Gtk::Window window; window.set_default_size(200, 200); return app->run(window); } ^D g++ -o gtkmmexample.exe $(pkg-config --cflags gtkmm-3.0) gtkmmexample.cpp $(pkg-config --libs gtkmm-3.0) ./gtkmmexample.exe works as expected _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
