GSK library question

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Hello folks, my first post here.

I’m building GTK4 and the demos on Windows. But I’m confused about how the .DLL dependencies should be. E.g. is GSK a part of the GTK4 DLL-library or should it be used on
it’s own?

Grepping through the meson.build files, I see only one use of shared_library().
Namely for gtk-4 and -DGTK_COMPILATION is set for the GSK sources too.
So I ass-u-me GSK is an integral part of GTK. But looking at e.g. Vala-for-Windows, I
see no export of any gsk_ symbols.

It would be nice to see a .DLL dependency map of the big picture. If such thing exist.

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Hi,

The gtk4 library (*.dll on Windows, *.so on Linux) contains all Gtk, Gdk and Gsk symbols. So you only need that dll.

The Gsk API for vala can be found here: Gsk – gtk4

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Thanks for the info.

You seems to know a lot of GTK/Glib. So maybe you could help me with
glib-compile-resources.exe. It takes forever generating a .c-file from e.g..

Using ProcessExplorer, I see it’s spawns a huge number of
gspawn-win64-helper-console.exe process (in sequence).

The cmd-line is something like this:

<root>\bin\gspawn-win64-helper-console.exe 5 6 z z - - y y
 - - f:/MinGW32/src/Parsers/libxml2/bin/xmllint.exe --nonet 
  --noblanks --output c:\temp\resource-XXTOH6D3 
  ./icons/edit-cut-symbolic.svg

I suspect the slowness is due to xmllint.exe. Why so slow? Approx 5 minutes for
an XML-file with only 350 files. Is this normal?

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This is likely caused by Windows Defender slowing down opening files.

The recommendation is to add an exception for the location of your source code.

As a side note: please, don’t hijack your own topics. Open up a new topic for new questions.

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