Prerequisites

GTK requires the following packages:

  • Autotools or Meson

  • The GLib, Pango, GdkPixbuf, ATK and cairo libraries, available at the same location as GTK.

  • libepoxy, for cross-platform OpenGL support. It can be found here: https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy

  • Each GDK backend has its own backend-specific requirements. For the X11 backend, X11 R6 and XInput version 2 (as well as a number of other extensions) are required. The Wayland backend requires (obviously) the Wayland libraries.

  • gobject-introspection

Simple install procedure for Meson

$ tar xf gtk+-3.24.46.tar.xz                # unpack the sources
$ cd gtk+-3.24.46                           # change to the toplevel directory
$ meson setup _build                        # configure GTK+
$ meson compile -C _build                   # build GTK+
[ Become root if necessary ]
# meson install -C _build                   # install GTK+

The Details

Complete information about installing GTK+ and related libraries can be found in the file:

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