Geany

[bonzadog]

28.12.2017
Hello all,
Stretch, RPi3

I have installed geany sudo apt-get install geany and get what appears to be an antiquated version from 2014.
I also want a debugger as well which I hope to install via sudo install geany-plugins
As far as I am concerned an IDE must have a decent debugger.

My question is:
1) will there a Raspberrypi.org update to geany version 1.32 soon (ie a new apt-get install)?

1a) if not, then I must compile etc myself but on geany.org these seem to be a lot of required dependencies and I am unsure how to proceed - perhaps someone could point me to some pages?

For SW development, I like using IDE's and am no fan of CLI commands.

Any tips most welcome - thank you in advance

[fruitoftheloom]

28.12.2017
Hello all,
Stretch, RPi3

I have installed geany sudo apt-get install geany and get what appears to be an antiquated version from 2014.
I also want a debugger as well which I hope to install via sudo install geany-plugins
As far as I am concerned an IDE must have a decent debugger.

My question is:
1) will there a Raspberrypi.org update to geany version 1.32 soon (ie a new apt-get install)?

1a) if not, then I must compile etc myself but on geany.org these seem to be a lot of required dependencies and I am unsure how to proceed - perhaps someone could point me to some pages?

For SW development, I like using IDE's and am no fan of CLI commands.

Any tips most welcome - thank you in advance

Geany 1.29 in Stretch was released November 2016, so stable at time of Debian Stretch freeze:

https://packages.debian.org/stretch/geany



You can build from Source Package:

https://www.geany.org/Download/Releases

[bonzadog]

Thank you, I will try that.

Just one more question - how can one write a GUI ( similar to tkinter) in C?
I would like - among other things - to create an elegant User interface and present data + alarms in a text box.

[Paeryn]

Just one more question - how can one write a GUI ( similar to tkinter) in C?
I would like - among other things - to create an elegant User interface and present data + alarms in a text box.

Well Tkinter is a Python wrapper for Tcl/Tk, you can easily link the Tcl/Tk interpreter library into a C program and use it (though Tkinter does hide the fact that Tcl/Tk is a language in its own right rather than just a library of functions).

GTK+ is a common GUI library, as is Qt (although I think Qt is C++ rather than C).

[PeterO]

Thank you, I will try that.

Just one more question - how can one write a GUI ( similar to tkinter) in C?
I would like - among other things - to create an elegant User interface and present data + alarms in a text box.

There are some GTK+3 examples on my web site at http://www.peteronion.org.uk/GtkExample ... rials.html

PeterO

[MikeG58]

Along the lines of using Geany to play with GTK3. I'm having an awful time with that.

I think I have gtk-3.0 installed correctly.

Right now, I entered a small C program that has:

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

When I try to build my program, the compiler sends an error message that gtk/gtk.h can't be found. So, I to the "Set Build Command" option, and, from what I've poured over for gcc command options, have included the -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0 in both my Compile and my Build Command Window.

Now, I'm getting an error, complaining about /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gdk/gdkconfig.h:13:18 which must be referring to header glib.h, which doesn't exist.

I guess my question is, how do you set up the Build and Compile command to program with gtk?

-Mike

[Silverlock]

Possibly dumb question: do you have libglib2.0-dev installed?

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sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev

[MikeG58]

No, hardly a dumb question at all!

Whoever posted a link to Peter Onion's tutorial, I'll have to go back and look, is a lifesaver.

Oh! It was Peter O. who posted it. Thank you Peter, and thanks for finally getting my feet on the ground! I don't know if I'll install Glade, can you ever have enough tools to program GTK! Just when you think you have everything you need, darn, you need to install something else, and, I'm not to good at the Linux packaging system yet, if that's what you call the system to install programs on Linux.

I don't know if I have libglib2.0-dev installed, but one of the first thing, the first thing in the tutorial was to add:

sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev, for GTK 3.0

However, I believe it was already installed, because it didn't download any packages, I don't think, from what little I understand about the Linux package system. Anyway, instead of getting 20+ lines, I only got 8 or less, so, I assume, that libgtk-3-dev had already been installed.

What I didn't know, was the very, very, long command line that you have to give to the gcc compiler, or you can use

$(pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --cflags --libs)

I still don't know exactly what I'm doing. I haven't yet got the first example GTK program to run on Geany, but, I did get it to run with the gcc command line:

gcc -Wall -Wextra -o GTKexample002 GTKexample002.c $(pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --cflags --libs)

Actually, it didn't run with this, but it did compile. And then I run it with ./GTKexample002

It worked! Finally!!!!!

Now, to see if I can get it to work with Geany.

I got it to work with Geany!

I'm getting a error message in my terminal window, but, I'll ask Peter O about this in my next post.

-Mike