SGI Freeware: gtk+ 1.2.9

gtk+-1.2.9: description + notes

GTK (GIMP Toolkit) is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It's called the GIMP toolkit because it was originally written for developing the General Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), but GTK has now been used in a large number of software projects, including the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) project. GTK is built on top of GDK (GIMP Drawing Kit) which is basically a wrapper around the low-level functions for accessing the underlying windowing functions (Xlib in the case of X windows).
GTK is essentially an object oriented application programmers interface (API). Although written completely in C, it is implemented using the idea of classes and callback functions (pointers to functions).
There is also a third component called glib that contains a few replacements for some standard calls, as well as some additional functions for handling linked lists etc. The replacement functions are used to increase GTK's portability, as some of the functions implemented here are not available or are nonstandard on other unixes such as g_strerror(). Some also contain enhancements to the libc versions, such as g_malloc that has enhanced debugging utilities.

NOTE: Developers intending to use this distribution of gtk for application development should be sure to read the information below. Users installing gtk for the runtime environment only need not read any further.

Developers intending to use this library for development of other freeware packages or their own software applications will need to be familiar with a few peculiarities due to the way that this library is packaged and installed. The reasons for this installation strategy are described further in the fw_common product release notes.
The header files and libraries in this package are installed into /usr/freeware. This means that when building software using this distribution of gtk you should be sure to do the following:
Include the following flag on your compile lines:
-I/usr/freeware/include
This flag will cause your compilations to correctly find the library's header files at compile time.
Include the following flag on your link lines:
-L/usr/freeware/lib   (if using o32 ABI)
-L/usr/freeware/lib32 (if using n32 ABI)
-L/usr/freeware/lib64 (if using 64 ABI)
This flag will cause the linker to correctly find the library's archive or shared object files at link time.
Additionally, include the following flag on your link lines:
-rpath /usr/freeware/lib   (if using o32 ABI)
-rpath /usr/freeware/lib32 (if using n32 ABI)
-rpath /usr/freeware/lib64 (if using 64 ABI)
This flag will allow the binary to locate the shared object library files when the application is run. This is required since the shared objects are stored in these /usr/freeware subdirectories which are not searched by the run-time linker by default.
Finally, if you are building an installable package for inst (contributing to freeware, for example) be sure to make your package depend upon this package. Add the following line to your spec file:
prereq ( fw_gtk+.sw.lib 1230000000 1239999900 )
Following these guidelines will allow your application to safely and easily use the software in this package.
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