Gtkmm's website

This is the source of the gtkmm website.

The source consists of a DocBook 5.0 document. It requires the docbook5-xml and docbook-xsl-ns packages (Ubuntu names, can have other names in other distros). It may be possible to build without these packages, but it will be much slower (minutes instead of seconds).¹

The website can be built with Meson or Autotools.

When a commit is pushed to the master branch in the git repository, the website is built and published at https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnomemm-website and https://www.gtkmm.org.

General information

Web site

• https://www.gtkmm.org
• https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gnomemm-website

Discussion on GNOME's discourse forum

• https://discourse.gnome.org/tag/cplusplus
• https://discourse.gnome.org/c/platform

Git repository

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnomemm-website

Bugs can be reported to

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnomemm-website/-/issues

Patches can be submitted to

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnomemm-website/-/merge_requests

Building

Building with Meson

• Create a build directory and configure it:

  cd gnomemm-website
  meson setup [options] <build-dir>

  Do not call the build-dir gnomemm-website/build. There is already such a directory, used when building with Autotools.

• Create the html files of the website:

  cd <build-dir>
  ninja

• Watch the result:

  Open <build-dir>/docs/html/index.html in a web browser.

• Publish the website at www.gtkmm.org:

  Done automatically when new git commits are pushed to the master branch.

  There is a publish target (requiring a login at www.gtkmm.org), but it is disabled and there is no reason to use it.

Building with Autotools

• Configure, build in the source directory:

  cd gnomemm-website
  ./autogen.sh

• Create the html files of the website:

  make

• Watch the result:

  Open docs/html/index.html in a web browser.

• Publish the website at www.gtkmm.org:

  Done automatically when new git commits are pushed to the master branch.

  There is a post-html target (requiring a login at www.gtkmm.org), but there is no reason to use it.

Adding a new language

• Generate a temporary .pot file and the .po file for your locale, say xx_XX:

  cd docs
  itstool -o gnomemm-website.pot C/index.docbook C/*.xml
  mkdir xx_XX
  msginit -i gnomemm-website.pot -o xx_XX/xx_XX.po -l xx_XX.utf8

• Translate the .po file.

• Modify docs/C/index.docbook and docs/C/index.withimg:

  Find <formalpara xml:id="language-menu">, and add your locale.

  <listitem>
    <para><link its:translate="no" xlink:href="../xx_XX/index.html">Xxxx</link></para>
  </listitem>

• Add your language to docs/LINGUAS (used when building with Meson).

• Add your language to HELP_LINGUAS in docs/Makefile.am (used when building with Autotools).

• Run make or ninja to generate all pages.

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Footnotes

1. The xmllint command is told to read files from http://docbook.org. The xsltproc command is told to read files from http://docbook.sourceforge.net. The commands first search for local copies of those files. If local copies exist and are installed at expected locations, the commands make no network accesses. ↩