Where can I download precompiled GTK+ 3 binaries or windows installer?

Question

I have taken a look at GTK+3 and I like it. But unfortunately compiling from source has never worked for me. Is there any okace with decent binaries or even better, a windows installer?

Solution 1

2020-03-19 update:

GTK+ dropped the + and their website has been rewritten. So the install instructions for GTK on Windows are now at https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/

2017-04-07 update:

To make it clear, since 2017-06-23, the GTK+ project doesn't provide binary bundles for Windows. These are now provided by the MSYS2 project, with the blessing of the GTK+ team.

MSYS2 provides the most up-to-date versions of GTK+ for Windows, as well as a complete toolchain, and other useful GTK-related development tools like:

• Glade, the GUI designer
• Devhelp, the offline documentation browser

The official GTK+ website contains GTK+ installation instructions for Windows.

2013-10-27 update:

There's now an officially supported version of GTK 3 for Windows (GTK 3.6.4 as of today). You'll find it on the official GTK+ website, in the Downloads section. Thanks to the GTK team, and to tarnyko for his work in this regard.

2013-02-01 update:

There's a French dude (tarnyko) providing an (unofficial) GTK 3 installer for Windows, based on the OpenSUSE binaries, and another guy providing another (unofficial, again) build. Might help. The gtk-list mailing list is the best place to check how this evolves through time.

2011-05-15 original content:

There is currently no installer for GTK3 on Windows. However, the OpenSUSE Build System provides the Windows binaries for GTK3. On a GTK3 on Windows thread of the GTK devel mailing list, Maarten Bosmans provided the download-mingw-rpm.py python script, which automates the download of a package and its dependencies, and then uses 7-zip to unzip the content of the packages. See the post he explains how to use download-mingw-rpm.py.

Solution 2

It seems that proper Windows port is coming soon. According to this gnome developer blogpost:

http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/11/25/gtk-work-on-windows/

and it's comment section, Windows binaries should be available in near time.

Solution 3

There's a GTK+ 3.4.2 Windows binary installer available here :

http://www.tarnyko.net/?q=node/1

With a development version containing libraries, headers, MinGW & Vala compilers at the bottom.

Solution 4

I'm sharing the latest GTK+ and gtkmm binaries for Windows 32-bit through DropBox. Take a look. 3.22.0 for GTK+ and 3.22.0 for gtkmm as of today.

Solution 5

This one is even fatter and wholesome, but targeted for pygi. GTK is version 3.6.4 http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/pygobject-pygi-aio.html. BTW i'm former windows build mypaint maintainer which migrate to pygobject 3. Also for MinGW i'm providing the most badass MinGW distro http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/p/tuma-mingw.html

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