GTK1 Interface

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[edit] Introduction

The gtk1 widgetset is quite stable. There are still som bugs and missing properties.

The documentation can be found here.

The minimum Gtk 1 version supported is Gtk 1.2.18

[edit] Other Interfaces

[edit] Platform specific Tips

[edit] Interfaces Development Articles

[edit] Using the Gtk1 interface under Mac OS X

If you want to build gtk1 applications on Mac OS X you need X11 and GTK 1.2 too:

Apple X11: On a new system: choose "Customize" in the install dialog, check "X11".

On an already installed system:

MacOSX 10.3: download at:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html

MacOSX 10.4: install X11 from the DVD.

GTK 1.2: Downloading the GTK packages and installing them properly can be a time consuming task. Therefore there are various package managers. One of them is fink:

Download fink from http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en; follow the install instructions.

In the Terminal, run 

       sudo /sw/bin/apt-get install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc gtk-engines

The X11 application is in /Applications/Utilities/X11. You can drag and drop it on the dock so you can start it with one click. X11 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is different and starting X11.app is not recommended.

Tip: Most X11 programs, including Lazarus, expect to receive focus when the user clicks on a window. Under Mac OS X this is deactivated. You can activate it for all X11 applications by typing in the terminal: 

       defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_click_through -bool true

When compiling GTK-related software, you need to add two lines to the fpc.cfg file, to enable use of libraries: 

-Fl/sw/lib
-Fl/usr/X11R6/lib

[edit] Required software

  • Install Apple´s X11, available on your Mac OS X Installation Disk.

For Mac OS X 10.2.x you can download X11 on source forge at the X11 on Mac OS X Project.

For Mac OS X 10.3.x (but not for any other Mac OS X version!) also at Apple.

For Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger you must install X11 from your tiger DVD. This is for OS X to be able to display X11 programs. Tip: Drag the X11-Icon from /Applications/Utilities/X11 into the Dock for convenient starting.

  • Install Apple´s XCode, available on your Mac OS X Installation Disk or at Apple Developer Connection (requires creation of account, but the free online program is enough). This installs the XCode IDE and all the developer stuff.
  • Install fink, available at Sourceforge. This is an OS X 'apt-get'esque package system.
  • Check if installation was successful, open a Terminal and type: 
 echo $PATH

This should give you: 

 /sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
  • After successfull installation of the above, open a Terminal and type: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install glib glib-shlibs gtk+-shlibs gdk-pixbuf gdk-pixbuf-shlibs


This installs GTK.


If you decide not to use Fink or if your Fink installation is customized

If you install gdk-pixbuf, gtk, and glib libraries not using Fink, or if your Fink installation is customized to install under other than /sw directory, then make sure that the environment variable DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH point to where the libraries are. For instance, it you use MacPorts, the command below should do the trick: 

export DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/local/lib:$DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH"

The environment variable should be setup every time before running lazarus, or should be run from shell startup script.

[edit] How to get going

  • Start X11.
  • You get your XTerm. Focus it and type 
cd /usr/local/share/lazarus/
./lazarus

[edit] Lazarus as Icon

You can drag and drop the X11 app onto your dock to have a one-click way of starting X11.

To simplify starting Lazarus, in X11, choose Applications | Customize Menu, then click Add. Under Menu Name enter Lazarus, under Command enter the following: 

/usr/local/share/lazarus/lazarus

Click Done to close. Now you can start Lazarus from X11 simply by choosing Applications | Lazarus.

BEWARE: if you use the below svn, then use 

 open -a /Users/yourname/pascal/lazarus/lazarus
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