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Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson

Reputation: 17796

Using GTK3 link button under Windows

I'm using the GTK3 and compiling under both Linux and Windows (with Mingw64), and I'm having a problem with the GtkLinkButton. I set a URI in my program and it works fine under Linux, but when I run it under Windows and click on the button nothing happens.

I've found the following documentation for gtk_show_uri_on_window, which does the actual work for GtkLinkButton:

This is a convenience function for launching the default application to show the uri. The uri must be of a form understood by GIO (i.e. you need to install gvfs to get support for uri schemes such as http:// or ftp://, as only local files are handled by GIO itself).

Presumably this means I need to install GVFS under Mingw64. However saying pacman -Ss gvfs doesn't find any packages.

Is there a way to get URLs to work in GTK when running on Windows?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (1)

Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson

Reputation: 17796

After doing some digging I found this question with a number of answers. It seems that the Right Thing is to copy the following executables into my application bin folder:

  • gspawn-win64-helper.exe
  • gspawn-win64-helper-console.exe

Upvotes: 2

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