Compiling GTK4 examples with msys2

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Hi,

I try to develop a multiplatform application using opengl, but for the while i’m really stuck.

I think examples will help me but i tried with gears and shadertoy and boy bring me errors.

I ask myself if i didn’t miss some things…

Edit:
By example i tried with gears.
First it asked me a config.h i don’t know if it exists i just copied content from gtk-demo to files, i can’t find sources on my hard drive.

I created an empty config.h, sadly, because idk what to put inside.

I compile with "$ gcc $( pkg-config --cflags gtk4 epoxy) -o main.exe source.c gtkgears.c $( pkg-config --libs gtk4 epoxy)
"

but compilation failed with

D:/Programmes/x64/Programmation/MSYS2/mingw64/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/…/…/…/…/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: D:/Programmes/x64/Programmation/MSYS2/mingw64/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/…/…/…/…/lib/libmingw32.a(lib64_libmingw32_a-crtexe
win.o): in function main': C:/M/B/src/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-crt/crt/crtexewin.c:67:(.text.startup+0xbd): undefined reference to WinMain’
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

By example, what is “source”, it’s a c code, isn’t it ?

Thanks.

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mingw-w64-gtk4 is packaged and available in MSYS2, you can install it first.

See:

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Hi,

Sorry, but it’s not all in relation with my question :confused:

Anyone else ?

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The demos are not intended to be build separately, but altogether using gtk’s meson toolchain, so the missing config.h will be automatically generated during the build.

I think you should first try to edit gtkgears.c to make it independent from the whole gtk-demo. That will give you a good starting point for a standalone app example.

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Thank a lot, I was wondering about this yesterday but it’s better to have confirmation because it will take some time.

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