How to install gtk on OSX for use with g++/gcc compiler

Question

I already asked this question at apple.stackexchange.com, but I was told it was the wrong place for this question - so I will ask it here, as I was suggested to do.

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Answer 1

You can download precompiled Gtk2 Framework from: http://r.research.att.com http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK_2.24.17-X11.pkg, or http://r.research.att.com/libs/GTK_2.18.5-X11.pkg

And Gtk3 Framework from: http://www.tarnyko.net/dl/gtk.htm

Answer 2

I finally solved the Problem. tojanfoe suggested in a comment the link http://www.hardcoded.net/devlogs/20120426 which turned out to not be helpful.

This is how i solved it:

1.a) Installation of GTK+ 2.x:

brew install gtk+

1.b) Installation of GTK+ 3.x:

You can install gtk+ 3.x via home brew too if you need that, but the 2.x version is enough for my purposes. The command would be:

brew install gtk+3

2.) But after the installation I had the problem, that cairo could not be found. So i solved it this way:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/cairo/1.12.16/lib/pkgconfig/

3.) Then the compiler said it could not find the package 'xcb-shm', required by 'cairo'. This can be solved this way:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11/lib/pkgconfig

After this command the compiler worked as expected.