So new ground being broken here. It would be great to detail the install procedure for GTk3. I don't want to fight with the 64 bit install so I will download Strawberry 32 bit this weekend and start from the beginning. I'll mess with the 64 bit install at some later date. For now I just want to get started using Gtk3.

Thanks

Don

so I will download Strawberry 32 bit this weekend and start from the beginning

The G::O::I build should then work for you, using the binaries you already have.
Just make sure you use those same binaries to build the Glib module (which is a pre-requisite for G::O::I). I was using a Glib module that had been built against different binaries - when I rebuilt Glib-1.301 against the same binaries most of my problems with G::O::I disappeared.

The only problem I now have (afaik) is that the typelib files are not being found by default, and I have to use the search_path option (mentioned near the beginning of the G::O::I docs) in order that they are found.
Of course, the test suites for both G::O::I and Gtk assume that the typelib files will be found ... and hence, the tests still fail for me.

When I find out how to properly handle these typelib files, I expect both G::O::I and Gtk3 to build, test, and install just fine.

BTW, when I build Glib-1.301, some of the tests fail. I just ignore those failures and install the module anyway.

Cheers,
Rob

Update: Found it:

set GI_TYPELIB_PATH=C:\usr\local\lib\girepository-1.0
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Dunno why they have to keep that such a closely guarded secret.
Anyway, with that in place, G::O::I-0.020 builds, tests and installs fine.
*I* still have some issues because I pretty much need to rebuild Cairo against the same binaries that I used for G::O::I .... for the same reason that I needed to re-build Glib.
But you should be right.

I'm still having trouble installing G::O::I-0.020 I get ffi errors as below.

perl Makefile.PL

Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -Wl,--export-dynamic
Trying to build test libraries... not OK
Writing Makefile for Glib::Object::Introspection
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

dmake

GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x78f6): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_type_pointer'
GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x7970): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_type_pointer'
GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x79c0): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_type_pointer'
GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x79f5): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_prep_cif'
GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x7a23): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_call'
GObjectIntrospection.o:GObjectIntrospection.c:(.text+0x7fc2): undefine
+d reference to `ffi_type_pointer'
c:/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../../../../i686
+-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: GObjectIntrospection.o: bad
 reloc address 0x5c in section `.rdata'
c:/strawberry/c/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.6.3/../../../../i686
+-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: final link failed: Invalid
operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'blib\arch\auto\Glib\Object\Intro
+spection\Introspection.dll'
Skip blib\arch/Glib\Object\Introspection/Install/Files.pm (unchanged)
Skip blib\lib\Glib\Object/Introspection.pm (unchanged)
[ CC GObjectIntrospection.c ]
Running Mkbootstrap for Glib::Object::Introspection ()
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod -- 644 In
+trospection.bs
dlltool --def Introspection.def --output-exp dll.exp
[ LD blib\arch\auto\Glib\Object\Introspection\Introspection.dll ]
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I must be missing an environment variable or something like that.

Thanks,

Don

perl -V:aarchname returns

archname='MSWin322-x64-multi-thread';