257fd990d1
This is for adding a EGL-based renderer which is done via the ANGLE project, which translate EGL calls to Direct3D 9/11. This is done as a possible solution to issue #105, especially for cases where the needed full GL extensions to map OpenGL to Direct3D is unavailable or unreliable, or when the OpenGL implementation from the graphics drivers are problematic. To enable this, do the following: -Build ANGLE and ensure the ANGLE libEGL.dll and libGLESv2.dll are available. A sufficiently-recent ANGLE is needed for things to work correctly--note that the copy of ANGLE that is included in qtbase-5.10.1 is sufficient. ANGLE is licensed under a BSD 3-clause license. -Build libepoxy on Windows with EGL support enabled. -Currently, prior to running GTK+ programs, the GDK_DEBUG envvar needs to be set with gl-gles as at least one of the flags. Known issues: -Only OpenGL ES 3 is supported, ANGLE's ES 2 does not support the needed extensions, notably GL_OES_vertex_array_object, but its ES 3 support is sufficient. -There is no autodetection or fallback mechanism to enable using EGL/Angle automatically yet. There are no plans to do this in this commit.
GTK — The GTK toolkit
General information
GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites.
GTK is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties.
The official download location
The official web site
The official developers blog
Discussion forum
Nightly documentation can be found at
- Gtk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gtk/
- Gdk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gdk/
- Gsk: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/gtk/gsk/
Building and installing
In order to build GTK you will need:
You will also need various dependencies, based on the platform you are building for:
If you are building the X11 backend, you will also need:
- Xlib, and the following X extensions:
- xrandr
- xrender
- xi
- xext
- xfixes
- xcursor
- xdamage
- xcomposite
If you are building the Wayland backend, you will also need:
- Wayland-client
- Wayland-protocols
- Wayland-cursor
- Wayland-EGL
Once you have all the necessary dependencies, you can build GTK by using Meson:
$ meson _build .
$ cd _build
$ ninja
You can run the test suite using:
$ meson test
And, finally, you can install GTK using:
$ sudo ninja install
Complete information about installing GTK+ and related libraries can be found in the file:
docs/reference/gtk/html/gtk-building.html
Or online
How to report bugs
Bugs should be reported on the issues page.
In the bug report please include:
-
Information about your system. For instance:
- which version of GTK you are using
- what operating system and version
- for Linux, which distribution
- if you built GTK, the list of options used to configure the build
And anything else you think is relevant.
-
How to reproduce the bug.
If you can reproduce it with one of the demo applications that are built in the demos/ subdirectory, on one of the test programs that are built in the tests/ subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise, please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software that can be downloaded.
-
If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the crash occurred.
-
Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary.
Contributing to GTK
Please, follow the contribution guide to know how to start contributing to GTK.
Release notes
The release notes for GTK are part of the migration guide in the API reference. See:
Licensing terms
GTK is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or, at your option, any later version, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Please, see the COPYING file for further information.