Compile GTK

1. Compile

1. Getting GTK

git clone https://github.com/GNOME/gtk.git

2. GTK versions

git branch -a
git checkout 3.12.2
git clean -xdf

3. Compiling

cd ~/gtk
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
find . -name "*.so*" -exec cp {} ~/gtk_src/ \;

4. Set GTK

Simply use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable and point it to your .libs folder that you got from compilation.

 LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 /home/ericwill/src/gtk_versions/3-14/gtk/gtk/.libs

2. Issues

1. No GTK-Doc found, please install it

sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools

2. No package ‘gdk-pixbuf-2.0’ found

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

3. ‘pkg-config –modversion glib-2.0’ returned 2.46.2, but GLIB (2.42.1)

Change LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the path of newly compiled glib

4. No package ‘atk’ found

1. check atk by command: pkg-config –libs atk, brew list atk
2. install atk: brew uninstall atk && brew install atk
3. check PKG_CONFIG_PATH: pkg-config pkg-config –variable pc_path
4. add the new atk locaiton to PKG_CONFIG_PATH env

5. ./autogen.sh: 10: ./autogen.sh: autoreconf: not found

sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf

SWT/Devel/Gtk/Dev guide
SWT/Devel/Gtk/Compiling Gtk
Attempting to install gtk+3 fails on atk dependency