Installation
To develop a gtk-kn application, two essential components are required on your workstation:
- the Kotlin Native toolchain
- the GTK 4 library
However, installation instructions vary by operating system, and the details can be tricky to navigate. As a result, we will provide installation guidelines for each operating system in the upcoming chapters.
Requirements¶
Linux¶
You first have to install the following dependencies:
# Debian
sudo apt install gnome-devel gcc-multilib libgtksourceview-5-dev
# Fedora
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gtksourceview5-devel libxcrypt-compat
A bash script to install all the dependencies for Ubuntu 22.04 , that includes also all the optional bindings, it is available here:
apt-get --quiet update --yes
apt-get --quiet install --yes \
openjdk-17-jdk \
python3-pip \
gcc-multilib \
libgirepository1.0-dev \
libadwaita-1-dev \
libgtksourceview-5-dev
# libhelium
apt-get --quiet install --yes npm meson libgee-0.8-dev valac valadoc
npm i -g sass
git clone --branch 1.5.19 https://github.com/tau-OS/libhelium.git
cd libhelium || return $?
meson _build --prefix=/usr
ninja -v -C _build install
cd ..
rm -r libhelium
macOS¶
Support coming soon
Currently, the bindings are available only for Linux, but the plan is to provide bindings for macOS in the future as well. Once the bindings are available for macOS, developers will be able to use them to create cross-platform GUI applications that can run on both Linux and macOS.
Windows¶
Support coming soon
Currently, the bindings are available only for Linux, but the plan is to provide bindings for Windows in the future as well. Once the bindings are available for Windows, developers will be able to use them to create cross-platform GUI applications that can run on both Linux and Windows.
Editor or Integrated Development Environment (IDE)¶
You can use any editor or IDE that supports Kotlin. For this guide we will use and refer to IntelliJ IDEA.