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.

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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.
gtk-kn NoNoNoPartialNo LGPL-3 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 Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
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 Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine 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

Gtk#

Gtk#
Developer(s) Xamarin
Initial releaseMarch 12, 2004;20 years ago (2004-03-12)
Stable release
2.12.41 [16] / September 22, 2016;8 years ago (2016-09-22)
Preview release
2.99.3 (for GTK3) [16] / June 6, 2014;10 years ago (2014-06-06)
Repository https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp
Written in C#, XML, Perl, C
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Type Widget toolkit
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website mono-project.com/GtkSharp

Gtk# is a set of .NET Framework bindings for the GTK graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library facilitates building graphical GNOME applications using Mono or any other compliant Common Language Runtime (CLR). Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget allows associating handler methods, which get called when certain events occur.[ citation needed ]

Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including Linux, Windows and macOS. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK, Gtk# and a native theme to make applications look like native Windows applications. Starting with Mono 1.9, running Gtk# applications on macOS no longer requires running an X11 server. [17]

Glade Interface Designer can be used with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A GUI designer named Stetic is integrated with the MonoDevelop integrated development environment (IDE).

In addition to support the standard GTK/GNOME stack of development tools, the gtk-dotnet.dll assembly provides a bridge to consume functionality available on the .NET stack. At this point this includes the functionality to use System.Drawing to draw on a widget.[ citation needed ]

As of September 2020, Gtk# support for Gtk3 remains in the preview phase and forked projects, such as GtkSharp, have been founded to provide full Gtk3 support for C# and other CLI languages. The lack of a released version of Gtk# with support for Gtk3 was cited as a reason to remove the Banshee media player in Ubuntu 12.04. [18]

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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.
  16. 1 2 "Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono: mono/gtk-sharp". November 16, 2019. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016– via GitHub.
  17. ↑ "Download Gtk#". The GTK+ Project. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  18. ↑ "'Bansheegeddon' may see Banshee, Mono dropped from Ubuntu default". ITWorld. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
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