GTK+ for Embedded Linux using Linux framebuffer

jemstar · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:18 pm **Posts:** 9

Hi,

I have walk over several web links related to building/compiling GTK+
I am looking for a help document which is really helps to configure and compile GTK+ for cross platform
For example I am trying to compile GTK+ for powerpc platform and I found that there are so many difficulties to compile the GTK+
The help documents in each dependency packages are does not have sufficient information to cross compile the packages.
And nowhere in internet that I can find a help to cross compile GTK+
Actually Iam looking for a help to configure and compile the GTK+ with Linux frame buffer for powerpc platform.
Can anyone share their experience of building GTK+ for embedded Linux?
Thanks for your valuable responce

errol · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:02 pm

Hi,

Support for the frame buffer back end has now been dropped in GTK+ v3 and was poorly supported in GTK+ v2. It seamed that no one had the time to keep up with maintaining the support for it. If you can use the X11 back end then that would be easier for you. If you really have to use the frame buffer back end then another tool kit may be better for you.

jemstar · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:18 pm **Posts:** 9

Hi, Thanks for your advice.

I am ok with using X11 but I am worried about the performance and size, not sure it will fit in my target (power pc)
Is that GTK+ with X11 will work fine with small devices like powerpc linux?
Is X11 is available for embedded Linux kind of system?
Can you please point me any link or document which help me to get some more information about GTK+ with x11 backend for embedded linux.

Paul Childs · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:33 pm

That will depend very strongly on what kind of powerpc chip you have, and what your memory footprint limit is. There is a wide range of embedded capabilities and definitely no blanket answer.
X11 is already used in a number of embedded projects, mostly targeting the mobile market (e.g.Maemo, OpenMoko). They claim to not have that much more overhead than Frame Buffer, but more to watch out that any drivers have x11 support rather than just Frame Buffer.
I have an ARMv6 (processor for a raspberry pi) and run GTK with an x11 backend on it and it runs brilliantly. I think you'd likely be fine.
What flavour of linux were you thinking of basing it around? gentoo? Is it a 64bit chip?

jemstar · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:18 pm **Posts:** 9

I started building GTK+ with direct framebuffer by refering
http://directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Proj ... ed_Systems

While compiling pango i am getting the following error

Code:

/home/power/js2toolchain/gcc-4.6.1-eglibc-2.14/powerpc-linux-gnu/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.6.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libxml2.so.2, needed by /opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
/opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `xmlSAX2GetLineNumber'
/opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `xmlCtxtGetLastError'
/opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `xmlFreeParserCtxt'
/opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `xmlParseChunk'
/opt/gtkdfb/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so: undefined reference to `xmlCreatePushParserCtxt'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[4]: *** [harfbuzz-dump] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/power/arief/pango-1.20.0/pango/opentype'
gmake[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Tried hard by referring so many forums but nothing worked
Help needed.

jemstar · **Joined:** Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:18 pm **Posts:** 9

I added "-lfontconfig" in CFLAGS linker line in /pango-1.20.0/pango/opentype/Makefile.
Now make moved to next step with some other error.

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