Here you can download a GTK+ 2 bundle (and a few additional libraries) built with Visual Studio 2013. HexChat for Windows is built using this bundle.
This is the bundle built by us containing all the GTK+ binaries, headers and import libraries. If you just want to use GTK+ for your application and don't want to build it yourself, download this. You will also need the Visual C++ redistributable to be able to run applications that use this bundle.
| GTK+ bundle | 32-bit | 64-bit |
| Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013 | vcredist_x86.exe - 32-bit | vcredist_x64.exe - 64-bit |
These are the libraries in the bundle:
| ATK | 2.18.0 | Source |
| Cairo | 1.14.4 | Source |
| Enchant | 1.6.0 | Source |
| Fontconfig | 2.11.1 | Source |
| FreeType | 2.6 | Source |
| GDK-PixBuf | 2.32.1 | Source |
| gettext-runtime | 0.18 | Source |
| GLib | 2.46.2 | Source |
| GTK+ | 2.24.28 | Source |
| GTK+ 3 | 3.18.5 | Source |
| HarfBuzz | 0.9.41 | Source |
| libffi | 3.2.1 | Source |
| libpng | 1.6.17 | Source |
| libxml2 | 2.9.2 | Source |
| OpenSSL | 1.0.2d | Source |
| Pango | 1.38.0 | Source |
| Pixman | 0.32.6 | Source |
| win-iconv | 0.0.6 | Source |
| zlib | 1.2.8 | Source |
| libdb | 5.3.28 | Source |
| cyrus-sasl | 2.1.27 | Source |
| libepoxy | 1.3.1 | Source |
| gsettings-desktop-schemas | 3.18.1 | Source |
| glib-networking | 2.46.2 | Source |
| libsoup | 2.52.1 | Source |
| ffmpeg | 2.8.1 | Source |
| lmdb | 0.9.15 | Source |
If you want to build the bundle from source yourself, we have a PowerShell script that will download the sources, apply some patches and run the build. It is largely based on Fan Chun-wei's Compiling the GTK+ (and Clutter) stack using Visual C++ 2008 and later.
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Install the following build tools and dependencies:
- Visual Studio 2013 Express for Windows Desktop - Any version of VS apart from 2013 is not supported.
- Windows Management Framework 4.0 - Not needed for Windows 8.1 and above
- CMake 3.0.2 (also works with CMake 2.8.x)
- msys2
- Perl 5.20 x86 or x64 (extract to C:\perl)
- Ragel (extract to C:\gtk-build so you have C:\gtk-build\ragel\ragel.exe)
- Python 2.7 (install in C:\Python27)
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Follow the instructions on the msys2 page to update the core packages.
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Install needed packages in the msys2 shell
pacman -S gzip nasm patch tar xz gettext make coreutils
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Clone this repository to C:\gtk-build\github\gtk-win32 It contains the build script, project files and patches.
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Now you have to allow PowerShell scripts to be run on your system. Open a PowerShell prompt as Administrator and run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -
Now start a new PowerShell window as a regular user. Go to the gtk-win32 directory and start building with the script. For example, to build the 32-bit bundle, run:
cd C:\gtk-build\github\gtk-win32 .\build.ps1
To build the 64-bit bundle instead, run:
cd C:\gtk-build\github\gtk-win32 .\build.ps1 -Configuration x64
The script has some parameters you can pass in. Run
Get-Help -Full .\build.ps1
to see the help for the parameters and examples.
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When the script is done, your GTK+ stack will be found under C:\gtk-build\gtk. Enjoy!