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Today we are going to compile Fractal - Matrix group messaging app - on Windows, because this app doesn't support Windows out of the box.

cargo vs meson

First thing first, people like to use the latest features in Rust, so we will update the toolchain:

rustup update

To test that you have all native libraries installed, run the build through meson

meson setup build

gtk-rs

GTK4 bindings for Rust done through this crate. So they assume that one already have GTK4 installed natively. And this is how we install GTK4 using MSVC toolchain.

Install GTK4 using MSVC toolchain

I'm going to follow the gvsbuild docs to build GTK 4.

Updated chocolatey just in case (the last time I used this tool in 2018 when I built Open Morrowind).

mkdir gtk-build
cd gtk-build
mkdir github
cd github
git clone https://github.com/wingtk/gvsbuild.git
cd gvsbuild

Open Anaconda PowerShell prompt

  • I have installed miniconda before (as described here)
  • or simple Windows PowerShell and execute C:\Users\neupo\miniconda3\shell\condabin\conda-hook.ps1, then conda activate 'C:\Users\neupo\miniconda3'

and there

python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate.ps1
pip install .
gvsbuild build gtk4 libadwaita gtksourceview5 gettext

Then take a sip of tea 🍵

Project(s) built:
    ninja                     (0.008)
    meson                     (0.000)
    pkgconf                   (0.743)
    cmake                     (0.000)
    nasm                      (0.016)
    libjpeg-turbo             (1.952)
    libtiff-4                 (9.334)
    win-iconv                 (0.649)
    gettext                   (14.424)
    libffi                    (0.633)
    zlib                      (0.154)
    pcre2                     (0.787)
    glib-base                 (1.920)
    glib                      (0.031)
    libpng                    (0.950)
    gdk-pixbuf                (1.388)
    freetype                  (1.500)
    gperf                     (0.718)
    expat                     (0.718)
    fontconfig                (1.173)
    pixman                    (0.649)
    cairo                     (0.856)
    harfbuzz                  (1.003)
    fribidi                   (0.733)
    pango                     (1.357)
    libepoxy                  (0.686)
    graphene                  (1.366)
    gtk4                      (169.799)
    msys2                     (0.000)
    libadwaita                (85.240)
    libxml2                   (29.655)
    gtksourceview5            (57.754)

Add C:\gtk-build\gtk\x64\release\bin to user's PATH.

GStreamer. Make sure to run ninja from x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer.git
cd gstreamer
pip install --user meson
meson configure
meson setup -Dbuildtype=release -Dprefix="c:/gtk-build/gstreamer/x64/debug/" -Dtests=disabled -Dexamples=disabled -Dintrospection=disabled c:\Users\neupo\develop\gtk-build\github\gstreamer-build
ninja -C c:\Users\neupo\develop\gtk-build\github\gstreamer-build
cd ..\gstreamer-build
meson install

Or fix the config later with

meson configure -Dtests=disabled -Dexamples=disabled -Dintrospection=disabled c:\Users\neupo\develop\gtk-build\github\gstreamer-build

If you forgot to specify prefix, don't worry, it can be fixed on the install step by specifying --destdir (ref)

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libshumate.git
cd libshumate

This is where I stopped.

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