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Build GTK 2 examples

Adrian-George Bostan edited this page Mar 18, 2020 · 8 revisions

Build on Linux

Install libVLC.

See installation instructions at https://github.com/adrg/libvlc-go/wiki/Install-on-Linux.

Install GTK 2.

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev

Download and run example.

go get
go build

Build on Windows

Install libVLC.

See installation instructions at https://github.com/adrg/libvlc-go/wiki/Install-on-Windows.

Install GTK 2.

  1. Download and install MSYS2 package manager to the default location.

MSYS2 package manager download

  1. Open MSYS shell and install mingw-w64, pkg-config and GTK 2.
pacman --noconfirm --needed -Sy bash pacman pacman-mirrors
pacman --noconfirm -Su
pacman --noconfirm -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk2

MSYS2 install dependencies

  1. Apply a workaround for a bug that is currently present in the GDK package config file. This is a no-op if the bug has been fixed already.
bash -c "sed -i -e 's/-Wl,-luuid/-luuid/g' C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gdk-2.0.pc"
bash -c "sed -i -e 's/-Wl,-luuid/-luuid/g' C:/msys64/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gdk-win32-2.0.pc"

MSYS2 GDK workaround

  1. Add MSYS2 binary paths to your PATH environment variable.
C:\msys64\mingw64\bin
C:\msys64\usr\bin

Add MSYS2 to PATH environment variable

Download and run example in CMD.

go get
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-L{your-libvlc-sdk-path}
set CGO_CFLAGS=-I{your-libvlc-sdk-path}\include
go build
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