Re: New Emacs with GTK?

[David Kastrup]

Peter Wu <peterwu@hotmail.com> writes:

> I notice some guys posting with Emacs 21.3.50. I guess it should be
> a CVS version of Emacs. Is this new version built with GTK?

Wrong question.  You can build it with a multitude of widget sets,
Athena, Lucid, Motif and now also GTK.

> If yes, GTK 1 or GTK2?

 ldd /usr/local/emacs-21/bin/emacs
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x41b45000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x41d9b000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x4206b000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x42086000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x41935000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x42006000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x420c0000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x41f85000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x41f4e000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0x420e9000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x41b29000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x41e0b000)

>From the News file:

** You can build Emacs with Gtk+ widgets by specifying `--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
when you run configure.  This requires Gtk+ 2.0 or newer.

> -- 
> Peter Wu
> Powered by Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

I would doubt that GTK ports to Windows XP would work, though.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum