As of 2022-11-20 there is no gtk4 package for Raspbian.
In order to install it in Raspbian you need to disable some dependendencies –
Wayland and gstreamer-player. Both done already in this fork. Furthermore you
need to install meson
from pip, as the version packaged with raspbian is too
old.
$ python3 -m pip install meson
Make sure that $HOME/.local/bin
is added to $PATH
in your .bashrc
.
$ meson build
$ cd build
$ ninja
In order to run ninja as root, you also need meson installed for root:
$ sudo python3 -m pip install meson
Finally you can do:
$ sudo ninja install
$ sudo ldconfig
Now you can build against gtk4 passing $(pkg-config --cflags gtk4) to the compiler and
$(pkg-config --libs gtk4)` to the linker.
GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.
GTK is a free and open-source software project. The licensing terms for GTK, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties.
GTK is hosted by the GNOME project (thanks!) and used by a wide variety of applications and projects.
The official download location
The official web site
The official developers blog
Discussion forum
Nightly documentation can be found at
- Gtk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gtk4/
- Gdk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gdk4/
- Gsk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gsk4/
Nightly flatpaks of our demos can be installed from the GNOME Nightly repository:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.Demo4
flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.WidgetFactory4
flatpak install gnome-nightly org.gtk.IconBrowser4
In order to build GTK you will need:
You will also need various dependencies, based on the platform you are building for:
If you are building the X11 backend, you will also need:
- Xlib, and the following X extensions:
- xrandr
- xrender
- xi
- xext
- xfixes
- xcursor
- xdamage
- xcomposite
If you are building the Wayland backend, you will also need:
- Wayland-client
- Wayland-protocols
- Wayland-cursor
- Wayland-EGL
Once you have all the necessary dependencies, you can build GTK by using Meson:
$ meson _build .
$ cd _build
$ ninja
You can run the test suite using:
$ meson test
And, finally, you can install GTK using:
$ sudo ninja install
Complete information about installing GTK and related libraries can be found in the file:
docs/reference/gtk/html/gtk-building.html
Or online
The default development branch of GTK has been renamed to main
.
To update your local checkout, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main
Bugs should be reported on the issues page.
In the bug report please include:
-
Information about your system. For instance:
- which version of GTK you are using
- what operating system and version
- for Linux, which distribution
- if you built GTK, the list of options used to configure the build
And anything else you think is relevant.
-
How to reproduce the bug.
If you can reproduce it with one of the demo applications that are built in the demos/ subdirectory, on one of the test programs that are built in the tests/ subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise, please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software that can be downloaded.
-
If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the crash occurred.
-
Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary.
Please, follow the contribution guide to know how to start contributing to GTK.
If you want to support GTK financially, please consider donating to the GNOME project, which runs the infrastructure hosting GTK.
The release notes for GTK are part of the migration guide in the API reference. See:
GTK is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Please, see the COPYING
file for further information.
GTK includes a small number of source files under the Apache license:
- A fork of the roaring bitmaps implementation in gtk/roaring
- An adaptation of timsort from python in gtk/timsort