Development Environment for GTK2

[agnel_kurian]

What do I need to do in order to setup my machine for development of GUIs using GTK2? What are the debuggers I could use apart from gdb? (Is gdb the standard debugger on FreeBSD?)

/* Background: Presently, the g_print calls do nothing. From what I could gather online, I need to build GTK2 with --enable-debugging option set. */

 

[xibo]

You can use any debugger you find, though normally gdb is prefered. Many people that develop on gnome like using the devel/anjuta IDE, which iirc has a graphical front end for gdb.

For your g_print issue, the --enable-debugging option (though it's --enable-debug=yes over here) gets set if you specify WITH_DEBUG while building x11-toolkits/gtkXY port, most easily by modifing the make.conf file like

.if ${.CURDIR:M*/x11-toolkits/gtk*}
  WITH_DEBUG=YES
.endif