drdon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I'm a bit reluctant to ask this question but I'm getting quite frustrated. My platform is Windows 7 64bit with Strawberry Perl 64bit. I've been trying to cpan install Gtk3. It has proven quite difficult with one problem after another (too numerous). I have gtk3 running as evidenced using the gtk3-demo but I still can't install Perl's Gtk3. That install cannot be that difficult so I am missing something quite simple.

As I fix one problem another arises. It can't find various header files needed by it's prerequisites, etc. I have the glib-win32-master zip file and got many headers from there. Before I include the massive amout of output containing the errors, I thought I would see if any of you can point me somewhere describing the Gtk3 install.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Don

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Re: Gtk3 Install Problems
by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 20, 2014 at 17:10 UTC

    This post is relevant to your problem, even though it doesn't offer a solution.

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      You are absolutely correct. It is very relevent. I'm having similar problems. Thanks for the reply.

      Don

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        I think your best bet is to get someone else to build gobject-introspection for you. Maybe pester the person who built the Gtk3 Windows binaries.

        I was trying to build version 1.34.2. I haven't checked to see whether there is something more recent (which might build more readily).
        I use gcc-4.7.0 in the msys shell. Please /msg me if you can get Glib::Object::Introspection installed.
        My notes regarding the awful hacks I used in my attempt to build the gobject-introspection C library are given below my sig (in readmore tags).

        Cheers,
        Rob
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