[Openmcl-devel] Clozure CL Interface to GTK on Linux

[Ralf Mattes]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 07:53:37AM -0500, Craig Lanning wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 20:37 -0800, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mar 9, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Craig Lanning <craig.t.lanning at gmail.co
> > > m> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm running into trouble with the CLX backend for CLIM.
> > > 
> > > I noticed that there seems to be support in Clozure CL for GTK2 on
> > > Linux.  How do I get access to that?  What do I need to load?
> > 
> > I'm not sure it's fair to say that there is "support" for GTK, per
> > se.
> > 
> > There are a couple of example programs in ccl:examples; viz. gtk-
> > minesweeper.lisp and gtk2-clock.lisp.
> 
> I found these after I sent my message yesterday.
> 
> > Maybe they'll be helpful, but I wouldn't be surprised if these
> > examples have bit-rotted.

Well, they are Gtk2, so they definitely did rot ;-)

> 
> I was unable to get them to work.
> 
> Is there any other info about how to access the GTK/GNOME GUI system?

You could of course generate interface information for gtk3, but that's 
a very unpleasant task, IIRC.
BTW, is there any good documentation about the interface database (i.e.
it's inner workings)?

 Cheers, Ralf Mattes

> 
> Craig
> 
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