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https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs
Rust bindings of GTK 4
https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs
gdk4 gdk4-wayland gdk4-x11 gsk4 gtk-rs gtk4 gtk4-macros gtk4-rs
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Rust bindings of GTK 4
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs
- Owner: gtk-rs
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-05-13T11:01:46.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-13T09:32:49.000Z (15 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-17T00:00:08.599Z (11 days ago)
- Topics: gdk4, gdk4-wayland, gdk4-x11, gsk4, gtk-rs, gtk4, gtk4-macros, gtk4-rs
- Language: Rust
- Homepage: https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/
- Size: 271 MB
- Stars: 1,951
- Watchers: 16
- Forks: 182
- Open Issues: 96
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
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README
# gtk4-rs 
A group of crates that aims to provide complete [GTK](https://gtk.org/) 4 bindings. This repository contains all the "core" crates of GTK 4.
- [GTK](./gtk4)
- [GDK](./gdk4): An intermediate layer which isolates GTK from the details of the windowing system.
- [GDK Macos](./gdk4-macos): Macos backend specific functions.
- [GDK Wayland](./gdk4-wayland): Wayland backend specific functions.
- [GDK Win32](./gdk4-win32): Windows backend specific functions.
- [GDK X11](./gdk4-x11): X backend specific functions.
- [GSK](./gsk4): An intermediate layer which isolates GTK from the details of the OpenGL or Vulkan implementation.
The GTK 4 crates also depends on other libraries part of the platform like:
- [GLib](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/tree/main/glib)
- [Gio](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/tree/main/gio)
- [Graphene](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/tree/main/graphene)
- [Cairo](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/tree/main/cairo)
- [Pango](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core/tree/main/pango)
Those are common with the GTK 3 and GStreamer bindings and are part of the [gtk-rs-core](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core) repository.
For more information about each crate, please refer to their `README.md` file in their directory.
## Minimum supported Rust version
Currently, the minimum supported Rust version is `1.80`.
## Documentation
- [Examples](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/tree/main/examples)
- Book [Stable](https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/)
- The Rust API [Stable](https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/docs/) / [Development](https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/git/docs/)
### Useful links
- [Website](https://gtk-rs.org)
- [Discourse](https://discourse.gnome.org/)
- Matrix: [#rust:gnome.org](https://matrix.to/#/#rust:gnome.org)
## Ecosystem
The `gtk4-rs` repository contains Rust crates for GTK 4. However there is a large ecosystem of `GObject` libraries and many of these
libraries have Rust bindings based on the tooling included in `gtk-rs`.
Of particular note:
* [gtk-rs-core](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk-rs-core) - bindings for some of the core libraries such as `glib`, `gio`, `pango`, `graphene`
* [gstreamer-rs](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-rs) - bindings for the GStreamer media framework
Additionally, Rust bindings for various libraries are hosted on
[GNOME's GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org) instance and can be found at
.
When using crates that are not part of the `gtk4-rs` repository, you will
need to be careful and ensure that they do not pull in incompatible versions of core
crates like `glib-rs`.
### Built with GTK4 Rust bindings
A small list of applications built with gtk4-rs:
- [Solanum](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Solanum): A pomodoro timer
- [Shortwave](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave): An internet radio player
- [Authenticator](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator): A two-factor code generator
- [Health](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Health): A health tracking app
- [Video Trimmer](https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer): A fast video trimmer
Libraries built with gtk4-rs:
- [Relm4](https://github.com/Relm4/relm4): An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm
## Contributing
The bindings are composed of two parts:
- Automatically generated ones using [gir]
- Manual parts
The automatic ones can be generated using the [`generator.py`](https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir/blob/main/generator.py) script
```bash
python3 ./generator.py
```
If you didn't do so yet, please check out all the submodules before via
```bash
$ git submodule update --checkout
```
All the crates except `gtk4-macros` follow this structure
```text
./crate
├── Gir.toml
├── README.md
├── src
│ ╰── auto
├── sys
╰── tests
```
- `README.md`: Explanations about the crate itself and eventually some details.
- `Gir.toml`: Used by [gir] to generate most of the code.
- `src`: Contains the source code of the crate.
- `src/auto`: Contains the automatically generated part of the source code.
- `sys`: Contains the 1:1 bindings of the C API.
[gir]: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gir