FileManager (fm)

FileManager (fm) is a simple command-line tool written in C++ with GTK3 for listing files in a directory. This is a hobby project aimed at learning new things. Currently, fm can list files within a specified directory. If no directory is specified, it defaults to the current directory. Note that passing files as parameters is not supported and will result in an error.

Features

• List files in a specified directory
• Default to current directory if no parameter is provided

Preparation

To compile the project, some preparations are required on Windows:

1. Install MSYS2 x64.
2. Start the MSYS2 UCRT64 console.
3. Run the following command:

pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-meson \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-python \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gtk3 \
		  mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-glade \
          mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain \
          base-devel

Compile and run

1. Open the MSYS2 UCRT64 terminal.
2. Change into the fm folder.
3. Run the following commands:

meson setup build
meson compile -vC build

Compile release build

1. Open the MSYS2 UCRT64 terminal.
2. Change into the fm folder.
3. Run the following commands:

meson setup build --buildtype=release
meson compile -C build

The exe file needs some dlls that can be found in C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin:

• libatk-1.0-0.dll
• libbrotlicommon.dll
• libbrotlidec.dll
• libcairo-2.dll
• libcairo-gobject-2.dll
• libdatrie-1.dll
• libdeflate.dll
• libepoxy-0.dll
• libfontconfig-1.dll
• libfreetype-6.dll
• libfribidi-0.dll
• libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll
• libgdk-3-0.dll
• libgio-2.0-0.dll
• libglib-2.0-0.dll
• libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
• libgobject-2.0-0.dll
• libgraphite2.dll
• libgtk-3-0.dll
• libharfbuzz-0.dll
• libjbig-0.dll
• libjpeg-8.dll
• libLerc.dll
• libpango-1.0-0.dll
• libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll
• libpangoft2-1.0-0.dll
• libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll
• libpcre2-8-0.dll
• libpixman-1-0.dll
• libpng16-16.dll
• libsharpyuv-0.dll
• libstdc++-6.dll
• libthai-0.dll
• libtiff-6.dll
• libwebp-7.dll

Copy them along with the exe file.

Links

Resources used for installation and development:

• https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/
• https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/getting_started.html#building-user-interfaces
• https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/treeview-tutorial.html
• https://mesonbuild.com/Tutorial.html
• https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html
• https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/blob/master/meson.build
• https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2