Minimal dynamic bindings for GLib, GObject, Gio, GTK4, and WebKitGTK.

Support for Libadwaita sooner or later.

Work in progress.

Why?

• Initially saw as a challenge.
  • For another project that will depend on this.
  • Hand-written bindings, without the need of translating from text files and external tools.
  • No OOP-like wrappers for simplicity and ease of maintenance.
• Up-to-date GTK4/WebKitGTK bindings.
  • GtkD states supporting 3.24 while it loads gtk4, so I'm a little confused.

Notes:

• Important: Does not work with DMD (tested on 2.106.1+cc-13.3.0+linux64).
• Important: Bindings are added incrementally by hand. There are a lot of missing bindings.
• Important: Does not offer version target bindings.
  • e.g., stuff added/deprecated in certain versions, GTK 4.10 being rather a big update.
• Does not offer bindings to deprecated symbols.
• Does not offer OOP wrappers.
• Does not (yet) offer static bindings.
• GDK and GSK bindings are missing.
• Windows dependencies are a bit messy, due to FFI.
  • WebKitGTK is generally unavailable on Windows. MSYS2 does not offer binaries.

Requirements:

• D compiler.
• git, since dependencies are based to particular commits.
• DUB, at least for building examples.
• libgtk-4-1 (Ubuntu package) and dependencies for GTK4.
• Optional: libwebkitgtk-6.0-4 (Ubuntu package) for WebKitGTK 6.0.

Examples

You can run and example using dub run :EXAMPLE --compiler=COMPILER -- ARGS, where:

• EXAMPLE is the name of the example.
• COMPILER is the name of the compiler (currently works with gdc and ldc2).
• ARGS are application arguments. Optional.

Available examples:

• basic: Features one button that prints "Hello" via from the command-line.
• form: Features a few tabs in a NoteBook, and some controls.
• header: Features a HeaderBar with a Button and MenuButton, and vertical Paned.
• webkit: Features an example with WebKitGTK.
  • By default, it connects to https://example.org/. You can specify a site using --site=.

Usage

Until a stable release comes out, you can import this repo as a DUB package by commit.

SDL:

dependency "ddgtk4" repository="git+https://github.com/dd86k/ddgtk4.git" version="b733b6b24c6e56deafab608fd394ee4e0aaa2ef9"

JSON:

"dependencies": {
  "ddgtk4": {
    "repository": "git+https://github.com/dd86k/ddgtk4.git",
    "version": "b733b6b24c6e56deafab608fd394ee4e0aaa2ef9"
  }
}

In code, you will need to import ddgtk4; and call loadgtk4all(); before using functions.