rustGtk

interfacing gtk from rust

1. install gtk+

2. write your gui code. in my case its gui.c and gui.h

3. compile gui.c gcc -c -fPIC gui.c -o gui.o pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0

it will produce gui.o file

4. create a dynamil library gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libgui.so -o libgui.so gui.o pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0

it will create libgui.so , we will link library into rust code

5. write a rust wrapper which links to external mod gui and compile using rustc rustc rust-gui.rs -L./

it will produce rust-gui.o file

6. note: you may have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that gcc can locate you .so files

7. run the rust-gui.o file as $./rust-gui.o