bug#57379: GUI toolkit for Guile 3.0?

[Lee Thomas]

Thank you both!!

Jessica, when I invoked the guix shell as you showed, it worked in that "(use-modules (gi))" succeeded. I need to learn more about including packages with the guix shell command. It's odd that I can get the latest guile to run without specifying it for guix, but I must have the other packages for gi to work .. . .

David, I was able to install G-Golf via guix, and that also worked with the "use-modules" portion of your "Hello, World!" example.

HOWEVER (alas), both examples fail on the "use-typelibs" line, with:

Typelib file for namespace 'Gtk', version '4.0' not found

In trying to resolve that error myself, I found that the guile manual has no entry for "use-typelib" in the Procedures Index. :-/  I'll submit that bug in a new email, after confirming there's not already a thread.

Oh, and David, https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/index.html has a link for Typelib that 404s. I would suggest a fix, but I couldn't easily find one, sorry.

But both of you have shown me that what I originally wanted to do is, in fact, doable. Thanks again!

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 1:03 PM David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> wrote:

Hello,

> > ... I'm trying to at least prototype a GUI in the same way that
> > in Python I can write "import gi" and proceed to create a GTK
> > window, add buttons and menubars and toolbars, etc.

You might also try G-Golf - disclaimer, I am the G-Golf maintainer, I
was hoping/waiting that some answer(s) would point to both solutions,
but as it didn't happen, here is the link [1].

David

[1]     https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/index.html