Part VIII. GTK Platform Support

Table of Contents

Compiling the GTK Libraries

Building GTK

Build types

Debug builds

Release builds

Dependencies

Building and testing GTK

Extra Configuration Options

x11-backend, win32-backend, broadway-backend, wayland-backend and macos-backend

vulkan

xinerama

media

print

cloudproviders

sysprof

tracker

colord

gtk_doc and man-pages

introspection

build-tests, install-tests, demos

Compiling GTK Applications on UNIX

Running and debugging GTK Applications

Environment variables

GTK_DEBUG

GTK_PATH

GTK_IM_MODULE

GTK_MEDIA

GTK_EXE_PREFIX

GTK_DATA_PREFIX

GTK_THEME

GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE

GDK_DEBUG

GSK_DEBUG

GDK_BACKEND

GDK_VULKAN_DEVICE

GSK_RENDERER

GTK_CSD

GTK_A11Y

XDG_DTA_HOME, XDG_DATA_DIRS

DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID

Interactive debugging

Profiling

GTK for the X Window System

X11-specific environment variables

GDK_SYNCHRONIZE

GDK_SCALE

Understanding the X11 architecture

Server, client, window manager

Using GTK on Windows

Windows-specific environment variables

GDK_IGNORE_WINTAB

GDK_USE_WINTAB

Windows-specific handling of cursors

Using GTK on Apple macOS

Using GTK with Broadway

Broadway-specific environment variables

BROADWAY_DISPLAY

Using GTK with Wayland

Wayland-specific environment variables

WAYLAND_DISPLAY

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR