debian: how to build from source?

[sid-the-sloth]

Could somebody please write a couple of lines about how to build this from source on Debian? Thanks!

[lah7]

There's an "easy" method, but it's the messiest to uninstall and causes two versions to co-exist (this installs to /usr/local, which overrides anything installed in /usr, like the system's original GTK3)

1. Install the build dependencies:

   sudo apt-get build-dep gtk+3.0
   

2. Download GTK 3's source and a copy of this repository; then apply our patches.

3. Check out Arch's PKGBUILD to see the build commands. They use Ninja/Meson for the build system, the question becomes "how to build gtk3?"

[lah7]

An alternate method is to patch the gtk+3.0 source package and adding our patches (removing any existing ones that conflict). This is how it's done for Ubuntu, which is automated by this script. It's cleaner since you can re-install the original GTK+3 to revert back.

First, enable the source code repositories in Apt and downloading the package source:

apt-get source gtk+3.0

Download a copy of this repository, add our *.patch files into debian/patches and update the series file. Then, here's how to build a package. Not sure on the exact command.

Some gotchas:

• Debian's packaging system is really picky about fuzzy quilt patches, so they might need individually refreshing first.
• The package might not build locally without workarounds - at least, this is the case with Ubuntu's gtk+3.0 (based on Debian's). There might be a file somewhere that mentions this.
• Make sure to update debian/rules and remove the checks, since the classic patches will cause it to fail,

[sid-the-sloth]

Thanks! I'll stick to gtk3-nocsd until this makes it into XFCE source. Thank you for doing this, and I do hope you can convince the XFCE team to include something like this in the source so anyone can keep the clean classic look of their desktop.