Dependencies

Guile-Gnome will try to build the following wrappers:

  • Gobject, Glib, Atk, Pango, Pangocairo, Gdk, Gdk-Pixbuf, Gtk, Libglade, Gnome-Vfs, Libgnome, Libgnomecanvas, Libgnomeui, Corba

All wrappers:

  • Autoconf >= 2.61
  • Automake >= 1.12
  • Guile-2.0 >= 2.0.11 or Guile-2.2
  • G-Wrap >= 1.9.15
  • Guile-Cairo >= 1.10

      • Note that at the time we write, Guile-Cairo 1.10 has not been released yet, it will hopefully soon be the case. In the mean time, the required bleeding edge Guile-Cairo stable version must be obtained from the source, see here.

  • Guile-Lib >= 0.2.2

      • Strictly speaking, you only need Guile-Lib if you intend to locally build the documentation and/or run make check, Guile-Gnome's test suite, which is recommended but not mandatory.

Specific wrappers:

Here are the dependencies Guile-Gnome will check, during its configure step, in order to decide which wrappers it can build. Some GNU Linux distributions require you to install the corresponding '-dev' packages, not just the core libraries packages.

  • Atk >= 1.12
  • Corba [(and libbonobo-2.0 Orbit-2.0)]
  • gconf-2.0 >= 2.18
  • glib-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • gobject-2.0
  • gthread-2.0
  • gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.16.0
  • gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • gdk-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • gtk+-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • libglade-2.0 >= 2.6
  • libgnome-2.0 >= 2.16
  • libgnomecanvas-2.0 >= 2.14
  • libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.16.0
  • pango >= 1.14
  • pangocairo >= 1.14

Quickstart

The latest release is guile-gnome-platform-2.16.4.tar.gz , with its GPG binary signature. Other releases are available here.

Special note

As I'm updating Guile-Gnome's web pages for this release, I still have a pending authorization request to upload the release files. So, in the mean time, I uploaded them under Grip's dowload area, which explains the download url refers to grip instead of guile-gnome ...

Once all [or the appropriate subset of the GNOME core libraries you wish to wrap] dependencies are statisfied, open a terminal and:

Notes

  1. During the configure step, Guile-Gnome will list the wrappers it will buid. You have to scroll-up or edit the config.log file and search for 'available wrappers' to see this important feedback

  2. In the above configure step, --prefix=/your/prefix is optional. The default value is /usr/local.

  3. To install Guile-Gnome, you must have write permissions to the following directories:
    • $prefix and its subdirs
    • Guile's global site directory

    You may check Guile's global site directory using:

    • guile -c "(display (%global-site-dir)) (newline)"

    Guile-Gnome's modules will be installed in $prefix/share/guile-gnome-2, and the file gnome-2.scm will be installed in Guile's global site directory.

  4. In case you need to augment Guile's load paths [for your own Guile-Gnome application(s) for example], you can: (a) create/update your personnal ~/.guile file, (b) update Guile's global site located init.scm file or (c) define/update your GUILE_LOAD_PATH shell environment variable.

  5. Like for any other GNU Tool Chain compatible software, you may install the documentation locally using make install-info, make install-html and/or make install-pdf.