From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:31:45 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] GTK+ for framebuffer? In-Reply-To: <20130903100905.GA324@zuhnb712.ap.bm.net> References: <20130903100905.GA324@zuhnb712.ap.bm.net> Message-ID: <20130903133145.370bb2d4@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Woody Wu, On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 18:09:06 +0800, Woody Wu wrote: > It seems buildroot already has GTK. Does it can build GTK+ for running > on framebuffer (a.k.a, gtkfb)? There used to be a DirectFB backend in Gtk, but it was always broken, because nobody was maintaining it (in Gtk upstream). It was causing too many problems in Buildroot to keep the support for such a broken feature, so we removed it. People interested in running Gtk on DirectFB should work with upstream to fix the issues and get the corresponding patches merged. These days, if you want to run Gtk, you should run X.org (which can run on top of the framebuffer), or maybe you can explore Wayland (but I guess it'll require Gtk 3.x, while we only have Gtk 2.x in Buildroot for the moment). Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com