On So, 31 Jan 2021, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > James McCoy wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 04:46:51PM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > + Add GUI support (ignore compiler warnings): > > > + % sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev > > > > This should really be libgtk-3-dev. GTK+2 has been unsupported for > > years and GTK+3 is already going to maintenance mode as work transitions > > to GTK+4. > > Well, the GTK 2 version works well, while GTK 3 still has a few > drawbacks, I believe it's slower. > > Also, that one package does not appear to be sufficient. If I remove > the libgtk2.0-dev package and install libgtk-3-dev: > > configure:9420: checking for pkg-config > configure:9438: found /usr/bin/pkg-config > configure:9450: result: /usr/bin/pkg-config > configure:9477: checking --disable-gtktest argument > configure:9487: result: gtk test enabled > configure:9533: checking for GTK -dev package > configure:9611: result: no > > Hmm, pkg-config does list "gtk+-3.0", not sure what is wrong... > It seems configure doesn't check for GTK 3 for some reason. > Debugging shell scripts... For GTK3 you explicitly need to call configure with the --gui=gtk3 argument, else it will always try to use the gtk2 toolkit and fail if that is not available. Best, Christian -- Einen Raucher zu küssen muß so ähnlich schmecken, wie an einem Aschenbecher zu lecken. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/20210131172752.GB2835808%40256bit.org.
