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XYZ Rose
XYZ Rose

Reputation: 63

Configure program that uses gtk1.2

I am trying to build a program as most others available on linux: configure, make, make install.

However when I try to configure it I get the following message:

checking for gtk-config... no
checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
*** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to gtk-config.
configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path?

I have got gtk 2.x on the host machine. And when I run which and locate on gtk-config I get nothing back. Since I have the source what patches can I apply to fix this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1564

Answers (2)

Martin Malec
Martin Malec

Reputation: 11

You could try using the compatibility wrappers developed by OpenSUSE team that try to emulate GTK1.2 by some wrappers and/or automatically patching source code to be compiled, to be able to use GTK2.0 instead.

Have a look at https://github.com/openSUSE/gtk1-compat - perhaps it may work for you. I didn't test it, however, myself.

Upvotes: 0

ebassi
ebassi

Reputation: 8815

You need to install the development files for GTK 1.2; the name of the package depends on your distribution.

I'd like to warn you, though, that GTK 1.2 was last released 15 years ago, in 2001, and hasn't been updated since — which also implies that the application you're trying to build is also hopelessly outdated.

GTK+ 2.0.0 was also released in 2001 and it's currently in deep maintenance mode (the latest version is 2.24.29 and was released in 2015); GTK+ 3.0.0 was released in 2011, and it's the currently developed version of the API.

You cannot really apply patches to compile an application written with the GTK 1.x API using any newer major versions of GTK+ (e.g. 2.x or 3.x); each time the major version of GTK is bumped, the API is changed in a non-compatible way. You would need to port the application to the new API.

Additionally, if an application depends on GTK 1.x it's also likely that it will depend on older versions of existing libraries; or deprecated ones. You will need to find all the dependencies and ensure that they can be installed in parallel with the ones you have installed in your system.

Upvotes: 2

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