List of language bindings for GTK

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As shown in the table below, GTK has a range of bindings for various languages [1] that implement some or all of its feature set. GTK 2 is no longer supported, meaning some languages below do not have current GTK support.

LanguageNameSupported? License Notes
2.243.124.0 GIR Official
Ada GtkAda PartialPartial?YesNo GPL-3 Supported up to 3.14. [3] [4]
C GTKYesYesYes—Yes LGPL-2.1 Native, no binding needed.
C++ gtkmm YesYesYesNoYes LGPL-2.1
C# and other CLI languages Gtk# PartialNo?NoYes LGPL-2.1 Support for GTK 2 is available up to 2.12. [5]
GtkSharp NoYesNoNoNo LGPL-2.1 Support for GTK 3 is available up to 3.22.
Gir.Core ??PartialPartialNo MIT
Crystal crystal-gobject NoYesPartialYesNo BSD
gtk4.cr NoNoYesYesNo MIT
D GtkD YesYes?YesNo LGPL-3 with exceptions [6] Supported since 2.12
Erlang gtknode PartialNo?NoNo MIT [7] No, partly supported up to 2.16
Fortran gtk-fortran PartialPartialPartialNoNo GPL-3 Supported since 2.24. Supports GTK 3 and GTK 4.
FreeBASIC FreeBASIC GTK bindingsYesPartial?NoNo LGPL-3 with exceptionSupported up to 3.4 and since 2.8, integrated into the core distribution.
Gambas Gambas gb.gtk component YesPartial?NoNo GPL-2 Secondary to the primary Qt components
Genie Genie YesYesYesYesYes LGPL-2.1 language written for GObject system
Go go-gir-generator ???YesNo GPL-3
gotk3 NoPartial?NoNo ISC [8]
Guile guile-gnome PartialNo?NoNo GPL-2 supported up to 2.12, partly supported on 2.14
Haskell Gtk2Hs YesPartial?NoNo LGPL-2.1 Gtk2Hs is a set of Haskell bindings to many of the libraries included in the GTK/GNOME platform.
haskell-gi NoYesYesYesNo LGPL-2.1 Generate Haskell bindings for GObject Introspection capable libraries
J J GTK addon PartialNo?NoNo GPL-3
Java and other JVM languages java-gnome YesYesNoNoYes GPL-2 with exceptionUnavailable on Microsoft Windows
Julia Gtk.jl YesYes?NoNo MIT Includes Glib support
JavaScript Gjs YesYesYesYesYes MIT GNOME wiki, based on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey
Node-Gtk NoYesPartialYesNo MIT Dynamic Node.js binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
Seed YesYes?YesYes LGPL-2.1 GNOME wiki, based on WebKit's JavaScriptCore
Kotlin/Native gtk-kt NoPartialPartialPartialNo AGPL-3.0 Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent.
Lua LGI PartialYes?YesNo MIT [9] Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
lgob NoYes?YesNo LGPL-3 lgob provides bindings of GObject-based libraries for Lua 5.1.
Nim gintro NoYesYesYesNo MIT High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim language
OCaml LablGtk PartialPartial?NoNo LGPL-2.1 with exceptionNo, supported up to 2.16
ooRexx RexxGTK PartialNo?NoNo CPL Yes, 2.0 or later
Objective-C CoreGTK NoPartial?NoNo LGPL-2.1
ObGTK PartialNo?NoNo LGPL-2.1
Objective-C GTK PartialNo?NoNo LGPL-2.1
Pascal Free Pascal gtk package YesYes?NoNo LGPL-3 with exceptionSupported up to 2.24, integrated into the core distribution. Gtk 3.0 bindings are being developed in the Lazarus-ccr project. [10]
Perl Gtk2-Perl YesYesNoYesYes LGPL-2.1
PHP PHP-GTK PartialPartial [11] ?NoNo LGPL-2.1 PHP until 5.2, GTK is GTK2
Prolog PLGI PartialYes?YesNo LGPL-2.1 Dynamic Prolog binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
Python pgi PartialPartial?YesNo LGPL-2.1 GObject Introspection Bindings for PyPy.
pygir-ctypes PartialPartial?YesNo BSD Pure Python GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) wrapper using ctypes.
PyGObject YesYesYesYesYes LGPL-2.1 since 2.22 [12]
PyGTK YesNoNoNoYes LGPL-2.1 static bindings, use PyGObject
R RGtk2 PartialNo?NoNo GPL-2 RGtk2.pdf
Racket gir ???YesNo MIT [13]
Ruby GirFFI-Gtk PartialPartial?YesNo LGPL-2.1 GirFFI-based bindings for GTK. Supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3.
Ruby-GNOME2 PartialYesYesNoNo MIT License Partial, supported up to 2.12, partly supported since 2.14 [14]
Rust gtk-rs NoYesYesYesNo MIT [15]
gi-rust NoYes?YesNo LGPL-2.1
Smalltalk GNU Smalltalk GTK+ bindings YesNo?NoNo GPL-2
Smalltalk YX GTK pluginYesNo?NoNo MIT
SqueakGtk PartialNo?NoNo MIT
Standard ML Giraffe Library NoYes?YesNo LGPL-2.1
Tcl Gnocl YesNo?NoNo BSD
Vala Vala YesYesYesYesYes LGPL-2.1 language written for GObject system
Wrapl Wrapl GTK+ module PartialNo?NoNo GPL-3 No, but almost full up to 2.22

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References

  1. ↑ "Language Bindings". The GTK Project. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  2. ↑ "GObject Introspection".
  3. ↑ "1. Introduction: What is GtkAda ? — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
  4. ↑ "10. Object-oriented features — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
  5. ↑ "GtkSharp | Mono".
  6. ↑ "GtkD License LGPL-3 with additional exceptions". GitHub . 19 November 2021.
  7. ↑ "gtknode license". GitHub . 11 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "gotk3 license". GitHub . 17 August 2021.
  9. ↑ "LGI license". GitHub . 20 November 2021.
  10. ↑ http://wiki.freepascal.org/Gtk%2B3
  11. ↑ Alexandre Pereira Bühler (2015-06-22). "Attention: created branch dev-php-gtk3". PHP-GTK General Mailing List.
  12. ↑ "PyGObject History" . Retrieved 2013-08-29.
  13. ↑ "1. Main interface". GitHub . 6 February 2022.
  14. ↑ Ruby-GNOME2 Project Team. "gtk3 / Rubygems" . Retrieved 2013-05-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ "GTK-rs license". GitHub . 17 November 2021.
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