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reply Alireza SN <alireza6677 gmail.com> writes:
GTK-4.0 was released a few weeks ago and new projects will start 
using it instead of GTK3 and a lot of older project will also be 
ported to GTK4.

GtkD is one of my favorite toolkits when it comes to GUI 
programming and I have been developing lots of personal projects 
with it this year. But it seems like there isn't much activity in 
GtkD development and there are no plans to support GTK4 which 
makes me sad.

I hope GtkD catches up, and I thank everyone who spent their time 
and effort to make it possible.
Jan 01 2021
parent reply RSY <rsy_881 gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 1 January 2021 at 08:25:49 UTC, Alireza SN wrote:

 GTK-4.0 was released a few weeks ago and new projects will 
 start using it instead of GTK3 and a lot of older project will 
 also be ported to GTK4.

 GtkD is one of my favorite toolkits when it comes to GUI 
 programming and I have been developing lots of personal 
 projects with it this year. But it seems like there isn't much 
 activity in GtkD development and there are no plans to support 
 GTK4 which makes me sad.

 I hope GtkD catches up, and I thank everyone who spent their 
 time and effort to make it possible.


D binding seems to be already generated

Have you tried to just rerun the generator with gtk4 source?
Jan 01 2021
parent reply Alireza SN <alireza6677 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 04:54:15 UTC, RSY wrote:

 D binding seems to be already generated

 Have you tried to just rerun the generator with gtk4 source?


There are only GTK3 bindings in 'generated' folder. I tried 
changing lookup files to generate GTK4 bindings, but it shows a 
ton of errors. I spent a couple of days debugging it, but I had 
no success at all.

There is also a pull request, but it's one year old and a lot of 
stuff has changed since. I tried that too, didn't work.
Jan 01 2021
parent reply RSY <rsy_881 gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 06:36:48 UTC, Alireza SN wrote:

 On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 04:54:15 UTC, RSY wrote:

 D binding seems to be already generated

 Have you tried to just rerun the generator with gtk4 source?


 There are only GTK3 bindings in 'generated' folder. I tried 
 changing lookup files to generate GTK4 bindings, but it shows a 
 ton of errors. I spent a couple of days debugging it, but I had 
 no success at all.

 There is also a pull request, but it's one year old and a lot 
 of stuff has changed since. I tried that too, didn't work.


so the generator needs to be updated, i'll take a look later today

https://github.com/gtkd-developers/gir-to-d/
Jan 02 2021
parent reply Mike Wey <mike-wey example.com> writes:
On 02-01-2021 09:19, RSY wrote:

 On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 06:36:48 UTC, Alireza SN wrote:

 On Saturday, 2 January 2021 at 04:54:15 UTC, RSY wrote:

 D binding seems to be already generated

 Have you tried to just rerun the generator with gtk4 source?


 There are only GTK3 bindings in 'generated' folder. I tried changing
 lookup files to generate GTK4 bindings, but it shows a ton of errors.
 I spent a couple of days debugging it, but I had no success at all.

 There is also a pull request, but it's one year old and a lot of stuff
 has changed since. I tried that too, didn't work.


 so the generator needs to be updated, i'll take a look later today

 https://github.com/gtkd-developers/gir-to-d/


I'm a bit to busy with work, but i definetly want to get gtk4 in gtkD.

Whit the current HEAD of gir-to-d the following runs without error, but 
i haven't checked the generated code:

```
girtod -i Gtk-4.0.gir
girtod -i Gsk-4.0.gir
girtod -i Gdk-4.0.gir
```

That would get you a generated binding in ./out for the  libraries that 
make up Gtk4 without it's dependencies so you would need the rest of 
GtkD to compile it.

-- 
Mike Wey
Jan 03 2021
parent Alireza SN <alireza6677 gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 3 January 2021 at 10:48:45 UTC, Mike Wey wrote:

 I'm a bit to busy with work, but i definetly want to get gtk4 
 in gtkD.

 Whit the current HEAD of gir-to-d the following runs without 
 error, but i haven't checked the generated code:

 ```
 girtod -i Gtk-4.0.gir
 girtod -i Gsk-4.0.gir
 girtod -i Gdk-4.0.gir
 ```

 That would get you a generated binding in ./out for the  
 libraries that make up Gtk4 without it's dependencies so you 
 would need the rest of GtkD to compile it.


Thanks.

I was able to generate the bindings. After adding them to other 
GtkD bindings and trying to build a simple app, it showed a lot 
of errors again. So I spent a couple of hours commenting and 
changing the generated code to finally make it compile. Then I 
faced a linker error with LDC. I switched to DMD, and it compiled 
and linked the code without any errors. But now running the code 
results in a SIGSEGV error :)

It was a good start. 👍
Jan 03 2021