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Note: These instructions are intended for developers wanting to develop applications based on GTK+, not for end-users.

Requirements

Windows version
GTK+ requires Windows 7 or later.

For older versions of Windows, you should do a custom build of older versions of GLib and GTK+.

Installing GTK+ and its dependencies

The easiest way to install GTK+ and its dependencies in binary form is through the MSYS2 project. MSYS2 provides a UNIX-like
development environment for Windows. It provides packages for many software applications and libraries, including the GTK+
stack. These packages are installed using the pacman package manager.

Note: in the following steps, we'll assume you're using a 64-bit Windows. Therefore, the package names include the x86_64
architecture identifier. If you're using a 32-bit Windows, please adapt the instructions below using the i686 architecture
identifier.

Step 1: Install MSYS2

Download the MSYS2 installer that matches your platform and follow the installation instructions.

Step 2: Install GTK+3 and its dependencies

Open a MSYS2 shell, and run:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3

Step 3 (recommended): Install GTK+ core applications

Glade is a GUI designer for GTK+. It lets you design your GUI and export it in XML format. You can then import your GUI from
your code using the GtkBuilder API. Read the GtkBuilder section in the GTK+ manual for more information.

To install Glade:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-glade

Devhelp is a help browser. It lets you easily navigate offline in the GTK+, glib and gobject API help relative to the version of
these libraries installed on your system.

To install Devhelp:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-devhelp

Step 4 (optional): Install the Python bindings

If you want to develop a GTK+3 application in Python, you need to install the Python bindings.

If you develop in Python 3:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python3-gobject

If you develop in Python 2:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python2-gobject

Step 5 (optional): Install build tools

If you want to develop a GTK+3 application in other languages like C, C++, Fortran, etc, you'll need a compiler like gcc and
other development tools:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain base-devel

Building and distributing your application

Building your application with MSYS2

You may use MSYS2 to build your GTK+ application and create an installer to distribute it. Your installer will need to ship your
application build artifacts as well as GTK+ binaries and runtime dependencies.

Building your application with Visual Studio

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GTK+ releases provide project files for Microsoft Visual Studio. You can use them to build GTK+ itself and use it in your own
project. Learn more on how to build the GTK+ stack using Microsoft Visual Studio and read these other tips on how to build
GTK+ with MSVC on Windows.

Distributing GTK+ with your application

You are welcome to redistribute GTK+ binaries, including applications that bundle them, on other web sites, CD-ROM, and
other media. You don't have to ask for permission. That's one of the points of Free Software. One important thing that the GNU
licenses require is that you must also redistribute the source code. This usually means at least the gettext, GLib, GTK+, Pango
and Atk sources.

List of GTK+ dependencies

GTK+ depends on several libraries:

GLib
cairo
Pango
ATK
gdk-pixbuf

To run GTK+ programs you will also need:

gettext-runtime
fontconfig
freetype
expat
libpng
zlib

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