List of language bindings for GTK

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.

Language Name Supported? License Notes
2.24 3.12 4.0 GIR Official
Ada GtkAda Partial Partial ? Yes No GPL-3 Supported up to 3.14.[3][4]
C GTK Yes Yes Yes — Yes LGPL-2.1 Native, no binding needed.
C++ gtkmm Yes Yes Yes No Yes LGPL-2.1
C# and other CLI languages Gtk# Partial No ? No Yes LGPL-2.1 Support for GTK 2 is available up to 2.12.[5]
GtkSharp No Yes No No No LGPL-2.1 Support for GTK 3 is available up to 3.22.
Gir.Core ? ? Partial Partial No MIT
Crystal crystal-gobject No Yes Partial Yes No BSD
gtk4.cr No No Yes Yes No MIT
D GtkD Yes Yes ? Yes No LGPL-3 with exceptions[6] Supported since 2.12
Erlang gtknode Partial No ? No No MIT[7] No, partly supported up to 2.16
Fortran gtk-fortran Partial Partial Partial No No GPL-3 Supported since 2.24. Supports GTK 3 and GTK 4.
FreeBASIC FreeBASIC GTK bindings Yes Partial ? No No LGPL-3 with exception Supported up to 3.4 and since 2.8, integrated into the core distribution.
Gambas Gambas gb.gtk component Yes Partial ? No No GPL-2 Secondary to the primary Qt components
Genie Genie Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LGPL-2.1 language written for GObject system
Go go-gir-generator ? ? ? Yes No GPL-3
gotk3 No Partial ? No No ISC[8]
Guile guile-gnome Partial No ? No No GPL-2 supported up to 2.12, partly supported on 2.14
Haskell Gtk2Hs Yes Partial ? No No LGPL-2.1 Gtk2Hs is a set of Haskell bindings to many of the libraries included in the GTK/GNOME platform.
haskell-gi No Yes Yes Yes No LGPL-2.1 Generate Haskell bindings for GObject Introspection capable libraries
J J GTK addon Partial No ? No No GPL-3
Java and other JVM languages java-gnome Yes Yes No No Yes GPL-2 with exception Unavailable on Microsoft Windows
Julia Gtk.jl Yes Yes ? No No MIT Includes Glib support
JavaScript Gjs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes MIT GNOME wiki, based on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey
Node-Gtk No Yes Partial Yes No MIT Dynamic Node.js binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
Seed Yes Yes ? Yes Yes LGPL-2.1 GNOME wiki, based on WebKit's JavaScriptCore
Kotlin/Native gtk-kt No Partial Partial Partial No AGPL-3.0 Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent.
gtk-kn No No No Partial No LGPL-3 Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent.
Lua LGI Partial Yes ? Yes No MIT[9] Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
lgob No Yes ? Yes No LGPL-3 lgob provides bindings of GObject-based libraries for Lua 5.1.
Nim gintro No Yes Yes Yes No MIT High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim language
OCaml LablGtk Partial Partial ? No No LGPL-2.1 with exception No, supported up to 2.16
ooRexx RexxGTK Partial No ? No No CPL Yes, 2.0 or later
Objective-C CoreGTK No Partial ? No No LGPL-2.1
ObGTK Partial No ? No No LGPL-2.1
Objective-C GTK Partial No ? No No LGPL-2.1
Pascal Free Pascal gtk package Yes Yes ? No No LGPL-3 with exception Supported 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 Yes Yes No Yes Yes LGPL-2.1
PHP PHP-GTK Partial Partial[11] ? No No LGPL-2.1 PHP until 5.2, GTK is GTK2
Prolog PLGI Partial Yes ? Yes No LGPL-2.1 Dynamic Prolog binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
Python pgi Partial Partial ? Yes No LGPL-2.1 GObject Introspection Bindings for PyPy.
pygir-ctypes Partial Partial ? Yes No BSD Pure Python GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) wrapper using ctypes.
PyGObject Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LGPL-2.1 since 2.22[12]
PyGTK Yes No No No Yes LGPL-2.1 static bindings, use PyGObject
R RGtk2 Partial No ? No No GPL-2 RGtk2.pdf Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
Racket gir ? ? ? Yes No MIT[13]
Ruby GirFFI-Gtk Partial Partial ? Yes No LGPL-2.1 GirFFI-based bindings for GTK. Supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3.
Ruby-GNOME2 Partial Yes Yes No No MIT License Partial, supported up to 2.12, partly supported since 2.14[14]
Rust gtk-rs No Yes Yes Yes No MIT[15]
gi-rust No Yes ? Yes No LGPL-2.1
Smalltalk GNU Smalltalk GTK+ bindings Yes No ? No No GPL-2
Smalltalk YX GTK plugin Yes No ? No No MIT
SqueakGtk Partial No ? No No MIT
Standard ML Giraffe Library No Yes ? Yes No LGPL-2.1
Tcl Gnocl Yes No ? No No BSD
Vala Vala Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LGPL-2.1 language written for GObject system
Wrapl Wrapl GTK+ module Partial No ? No No 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)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp
Written inC#, XML, Perl, C
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
TypeWidget toolkit
LicenseGNU Lesser General Public License
Websitemono-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]

See also

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. ^ a b "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.