gtkd

[Bill Baxter]

llee wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a program to use gtkd, however, I don't know what options I should pass to the d compiler. 
> 
> I'm using dmd to compile a test program. I'm using one of the example provided on gtkd's dsource website: 
> 
> import gtk.MainWindow;
> import gtk.Label;
> import gtk.GtkD;
> 
> void main(char[][] args)
> {
> 	GtkD.init(args);
> 	MainWindow win = new MainWindow("Hello World");
> 	win.setDefaultSize(200, 100);
> 	win.add(new Label("Hello World"));
> 	win.showAll();
> 
> 	GtkD.main();
> }
> 
> When I run dmd gtk_example.d, the compiler threw an error stating that it could not find gtk/MainWindow.d. 
> 
> I did a search for the file and found that dsss had created a gtk directory under /usr/local/include/d/, where /usr/local was the prefix that I used during the build. I copied the program that I'm trying to compile to /usr/local/include/d and tried to recompile it. This time It returned a number of 'undefined reference' errors. For example:
> 
> gtk_example.o: (.data+0x30): undefined reference to   '_D3gtk10MainWindow12__ModuleInfoZ'
> 
> It seems that I need to compile against a library. The instructions provided on gtkd's dsource page say that I need to use gcc to handle linking, and gives the following example: 
> 
> dmd myprog.d -c
> gcc myprog.o -o myprog -lm -lpthread -ldl -lgtkd -lphobos
> 
> It seems that I'm missing the gtkd library. I'm guessing from ld's usage conventions, that the library should be named libgtkd.a. I did a search for this library and the closest thing that appeared was libDD-gtk.a. I tried linking against this and it failed. At the moment I'm out of ideas.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 

If you used dsss to download/install gtk then you should probably be 
using dsss to compile it:

dsss build myprog

With a simple one-line dsss.conf containing:

[myprog.d]

--bb