Hello,

I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which
language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create
GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can
anybody give me a short manual?

I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
on Windows, I'll be happy too.

Thank you

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:29:04 UTC, Amateur wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which
> language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create
> GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can
> anybody give me a short manual?
>
> I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
> on Windows, I'll be happy too.
>
> Thank you

I would recommend using dub. Either download a release from http://code.dlang.org/download or clone the github repo https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub and build with build.sh

then you can list gtkd as a dependency for your project and dub will sort it out for you (hopefully).


You will need to install the latest gtk+ libs first with yast or zipper or whatever you use for package management.

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:38:25 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 13:29:04 UTC, Amateur wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which
>> language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create
>> GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can
>> anybody give me a short manual?
>>
>> I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
>> on Windows, I'll be happy too.
>>
>> Thank you
>
> I would recommend using dub. Either download a release from http://code.dlang.org/download or clone the github repo https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub and build with build.sh
>
> then you can list gtkd as a dependency for your project and dub will sort it out for you (hopefully).
>
>
> You will need to install the latest gtk+ libs first with yast or zipper or whatever you use for package management.

Yeah, I installed dub and ran commands "dub init main" and "dub fetch --local gtk-d". It worked properly, but how to continue? I tried compile simple app which contains only "import gtk.MainWindow;" and compiler yells that source for this cannot be found.

What have I to do next?
I have installed Gtk+ libraries, dmd, dub and I ran too commands "dub init main" and "dub fetch --local gtk-d".

Am 22.12.2013 15:15, schrieb Amateur:
> Yeah, I installed dub and ran commands "dub init main" and "dub fetch
> --local gtk-d". It worked properly, but how to continue? I tried compile
> simple app which contains only "import gtk.MainWindow;" and compiler
> yells that source for this cannot be found.
>
> What have I to do next?
> I have installed Gtk+ libraries, dmd, dub and I ran too commands "dub
> init main" and "dub fetch --local gtk-d".

You have to create a package.json file for you project and add gtk as a dependency.

See this page for further details: http://code.dlang.org/package-format

When you are done setting up the package.json call "dub init" and everything should be setup correctly.

On 12/22/2013 11:15 PM, Amateur wrote:

>
> What have I to do next?
> I have installed Gtk+ libraries, dmd, dub and I ran too commands "dub
> init main" and "dub fetch --local gtk-d".

You need to add gtkd as a dependency to your project's package.json:

{	
	"dependencies": {
		"gtk-d": "~master"
	}
}

Also, when using dub to manage your project, you don't need to 'fetch'. As long as a library is listed as a dependency, dub will fetch it automatically.

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:29 +0000, Amateur wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can anybody give me a short manual?

I cloned the Git repository for GtkD and then set up a bash script to give the GtkD make system all the right parameters so I could compile it for DMD, GDC and LDC2. However this is not trivial unless you are familiar with Make.

However I also just tried using Dub and it works very nicely. I think the general opinion will these days be to use Dub.

> I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
> on Windows, I'll be happy too.

I only have Debian and Fedora Linux and OS X, I don't do Windows ;-)

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On 12/22/2013 03:41 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 12/22/2013 11:15 PM, Amateur wrote:
>
>>
>> What have I to do next?
>> I have installed Gtk+ libraries, dmd, dub and I ran too commands "dub
>> init main" and "dub fetch --local gtk-d".
>
> You need to add gtkd as a dependency to your project's package.json:
>
> {
>      "dependencies": {
>          "gtk-d": "~master"
>      }
> }
>
> Also, when using dub to manage your project, you don't need to 'fetch'.
> As long as a library is listed as a dependency, dub will fetch it
> automatically.

I would recommend listing the subpackage as a dependency:

{
        "dependencies": {
            "gtk-d:gtkd": "~master"
        }
}

-- 
Mike Wey

El 22/12/13 14:29, Amateur ha escrit:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can anybody give me a short manual?
> 
> I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
> on Windows, I'll be happy too.
> 
> Thank you
> 

There is <http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/> for Debian Linux.

-- 
Jordi Sayol

On Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 14:52:23 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:29 +0000, Amateur wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm beginning with programming on desktop. After choosing which
>> language is "da best" for me, I chose D. And now I want to create
>> GUI applications, so I tried installing GtkD and I failed. Can
>> anybody give me a short manual?
>
> I cloned the Git repository for GtkD and then set up a bash script to
> give the GtkD make system all the right parameters so I could compile it
> for DMD, GDC and LDC2. However this is not trivial unless you are
> familiar with Make.
>
> However I also just tried using Dub and it works very nicely. I think
> the general opinion will these days be to use Dub.
>
>> I'd like to code on linux (openSUSE 13.1), but if I'll get help
>> on Windows, I'll be happy too.
>
> I only have Debian and Fedora Linux and OS X, I don't do Windows ;-)

Hello again. I have successfully installed dub and made GtkD dependency. But...

I tried to compile this code:

import gtk.MainWindow;
import gtk.Label;
import gtk.Main;

void main(string[] args)
{
    Main.init(args);
    MainWindow win = new MainWindow("Hello World");
    win.setDefaultSize(200, 100);
    win.add(new Label("Hello World"));
    win.showAll();
    Main.run();
}

But compiler said that he won't compile this, because "app.d(1): Error: module MainWindow is in file 'gtk/MainWindow.d' which cannot be read". Etc. for other imports.

So I copied libraries in /source directory and now compiler knows, from where can he import, but compiler is yelling another errors.

app.o:(.data+0x10): undefined reference to `_D3gtk10MainWindow12__ModuleInfoZ'
app.o:(.data+0x18): undefined reference to `_D3gtk5Label12__ModuleInfoZ'
app.o:(.data+0x20): undefined reference to `_D3gtk4Main12__ModuleInfoZ'
app.o: In function `_Dmain':
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0x15): undefined reference to `_D3gtk4Main4Main4initFKAAyaZv'
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0x1b): undefined reference to `_D3gtk10MainWindow10MainWindow7__ClassZ'
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0x3a): undefined reference to `_D3gtk10MainWindow10MainWindow6__ctorMFAyaZC3gtk10MainWindow10MainWindow'
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0x5b): undefined reference to `_D3gtk5Label5Label7__ClassZ'
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0x85): undefined reference to `_D3gtk5Label5Label6__ctorMFAyabZC3gtk5Label5Label'
app.d:(.text._Dmain+0xa9): undefined reference to `_D3gtk4Main4Main3runFZv'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

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