Building wxGTK port with Win32 GDK backend ------------------------------------------ GTK+ widget toolkit has multiple GDK backends and one of them is Win32. It is a wrapper around Windows API. See http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php These notes don't consider building wxGTK with X11 backend under Windows. Building steps: 1. wxGTK/Win32 build is similar to wxMSW one and you should have configured and be able to build wxWidgets as described in docs/msw/install.txt 2. wxGTK/Win32 is disabled by default in wxWidgets, you need to enable it in bakefiles manually. Apply following patch manually or using Cygwin: patch -p0 < docs/msw/gtkfix.patch Regenerate required make/project files: cd build\bakefiles bakefile_gen 3. Download GTK+ for Windows and uncompress files in the directory without spaces in the name. We suppose later that GTK+/Win32 is in the C:\gtk directory. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.24/gtk+_2.24.10-1_win32.zip 4. Building 4.1 If you are using Visual C++ project files you need to setup GTK+ 2 include directories C:\gtk\lib\include\gtk-2.0 C:\gtk\lib\include\glib-2.0 C:\gtk\lib\include\cairo C:\gtk\lib\include\pango-1.0 C:\gtk\lib\include\gdk-pixbuf-2.0 C:\gtk\lib\include\atk-1.0 C:\gtk\lib\glib-2.0\include C:\gtk\lib\gtk-2.0\include and library directory C:\gtk\lib\ See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9az1d21(v=vs.90).aspx Open solution file in build\msw directory, select "GTK+ Debug" solution configuration and build the solution. To be sure that everything is as expected you can build minimal sample. GTK+ is linked to wxWidgets always as DLL, so C:\gtk\bin directory should be in %PATH% environment variable before application run. 4.2 You can also build using nmake: set INCLUDE=C:\gtk\lib\glib-2.0\include\;C:\gtk\lib\gtk-2.0\include\;C:\gtk\include\cairo\;C:\gtk\include\pango-1.0\;C:\gtk\include\gtk-2.0\;C:\gtk\include\glib-2.0\;C:\gtk\include\gdk-pixbuf-2.0\;C:\gtk\include\atk-1.0\; set LIB=C:\gtk\lib\; set PATH=C:\gtk\bin\;%PATH%; nmake -f makefile.vc "TOOLKIT=GTK" "TOOLKIT_VERSION=2" or with MinGW: set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\gtk-2.0 set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\glib-2.0 set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\cairo set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\pango-1.0 set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\gdk-pixbuf-2.0 set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\include\atk-1.0 set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\lib\glib-2.0\include set CXXFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% -IC:\gtk\lib\gtk-2.0\include set CFLAGS=%CXXFLAGS% set LDFLAGS=%LDFLAGS% -LC:\gtk\lib set PATH=C:\gtk\bin\;%PATH%; mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc "TOOLKIT=GTK" "TOOLKIT_VERSION=2" 5. Now you can use wxGTK/Win32 as wxMSW in your applications.