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"It's been X days/weeks/months since last commit, is this project still maintained?" Yes. I'm just busy with my job :)
A set of diverse GTK examples written in different programming languages (currently C, Lua & Vala).
The main requirement to build and run the (C and Vala) examples is to have:
- Development files for GTK (3 and 4)
- Meson
- C and Vala compilers
- Glew development files (needed by the glarea example, only available on Linux for now)
Open a terminal, clone this repository, enter the folder and run the following commands:
meson setup _BUILD .
ninja -C _BUILD
And that's it! You'll found compiled binaries under the following folders:
- _BUILD/c/ for the C examples
- _BUILD/vala/ for the Vala examples
In the case of the Lua examples, they're supposed to run on any version of Lua, and the only requirement is to have LGI installed. If the GTK 4 examples don't work, you might need the Git version of LGI, which requires you to clone and build it by yourself. Any details about that are in the LGI repository.
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To build LGI you'll need gobject-introspection, check out the LGI repo for more details if you're having trouble.
You need to have Python installed of course, but also PyGobject and... That's it 👍.
GTK 4 is a huge jump from GTK 3 that came with many changes in the API, deprecating some classes and adding new ones. For that reason, not all GTK 3 examples are available in GTK 4 (and the other way around). Of course, I'll try to have the same examples in both GTK versions, but I can't guarantee all of them will be available. For more details on this, check out this list, which contains all the GTK 4 classes and indicates which ones are deprecated in GTK 4.
I decided to merge all my repos with GTK examples here because I feel that having different repos for the same purpose and with (basically) the same code is a mess, so I prefer to have all these examples in one place.