Projects:GTK on DirectFB

http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Projects:GTK_on_DirectFB

 

Table of contents

1 GTK-DFB 2 Precompiled Packages 2.1 Debian 2.2 Arch 3 Building from sources 3.1 Prerequisites 3.2 GTK-DFB Requirements 3.3 Building the Requirements 3.4 Building GTK-DFB 4 Testing 5 Chinese Beta Testing on Directfb 6 Compiling applications against GTK-DFB - the GIMP 7 GTK-DFB: Older Information 7.1 2.0.9 Version 7.2 How it works 8 Performance and memory requirements 9 References for the GTK-DFB project

 

 

GTK-DFB

The GTK on DirectFB (shortly GTK-DFB from now on) project consists in a GDK library which acts as a glue between the GTK+ toolkit and the DirectFB windowing system (similarly, the GTK-X11 libary acts as a glue between GTK+ and X11 and GDK-WIN32 does the same for Windows GDI).

 

Because GTK-DFB is meant for use in embedded applications rather than desktop, it has not all the features the X11 or WIN32 GDK backends do, but it is mature enough to run even complex applications like the GIMP.

 

This wiki page contains an howto about building the GTK+  (http://www.gtk.org ) libraries with the DirectFB backend enabled, in order to operate atop of the DirectFramebuffer windowing system.

 

At the moment of the writing of this document, the most recent stable release of gtk+ was 2.10.13: because newer versions may be available when you read this page, please make sure to always build a recent gtk+ release.

 

For historical reasons information has been left at the bottom of this page for people who want to get the old GTK-DFB 2.0.9 running: please notice that that GTK-DFB version is really out of date and is no longer maintained.

 

If you find any bug in GTK-DFB ping the gtk+ maintainers on gtk-devel-list  (mailto:gtk-devel-list@gnome.org ) or file a bugreport against the directfb component in Gnome BTS  (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=component%3Adirectfb+product%3Agtk%2B+ ) , user feedback is very important!

 

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