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Building Green Shoes on Windows 7
Look at Green Shoes manual: Installing Green Shoes
After installing Ruby 1.9.2 with RubyInstaller, there is no need to do anything except doing this one operation: gem install green_shoes
All dependencies will be installed automatically.
Note: the following is an old information
This guide is designed to help you build green_shoes on Windows 7 with the help of RubyInstaller and MinGW.
First thing is first, let's get ready to build Green Shoes!
We'll need to install some of the initial requirements for green_shoes on windows, such as Ruby, MinGW, and GTK+.
Download and install
Ruby 1.9.2
to C:\ruby. Be sure to add C:\ruby\bin to windows PATH.
Download and install
DevKit 4.5.0
to C:\DevKit. Then run the following commands from the Windows
Prompt:
cd C:\DevKit
ruby dk.rb init
ruby dk.rb install
.\devkitvars.bat
Once you have that installed you should have C:\DevKit\bin in your windows PATH.
Lastly we'll install the GTK+ development library for windows.
Download and install
GTK+
to C:\gtk and add C:\gtk\bin to windows PATH.
Now that we have all of those properly installed we're ready to build our precompiled cairo and gtk+ bindings.
So if you have made it this far you should have a working installation of Ruby and the MinGW DevKit for Windows. As well as the GLADE and GTK+ development libraries.
From here on out we'll be using C:\DevKit\msys.bat for all our commands.
The next step is to download and install the ruby-gtk2 and rcairo bindings.
Download the ruby-gtk precompiled binaries from green_shoes source. Put these
files in C:\tmp in order for the precompiled binaries to install properly.
First thing we'll need to install is glib.
With the precompiled ruby-gtk binaries downloaded to C:\tmp\ruby-gtk we'll be
able to use the following commands to get glib successfully installed:
cd C:\tmp\ruby-gtk\glib
make install
Once that's done we need quickly build the rcairo bindings before continuing with the ruby-gtk installation process.
Download the rcairo precompiled binaries from green_shoes source. Put
these files in C:\tmp\rcairo-1.10.0 in order for the precompiled binaries to
install properly.
Now to install the rcairo bindings:
cd C:\tmp\rcairo-1.10.0
make install
Once that is complete we can move onto installing the rest of GTK+ bindings.
With glib and rcairo bindings successfully installed we can move onto the atk bindings.
cd C:\tmp\ruby-gtk\atk
make install
Once this is completed move onto the pango.
Pango is a dependency of green_shoes and is included in the ruby-gtk precompiled binaries.
cd C:\tmp\ruby-gtk\pango
make install
Now we've successfully installed the pango bindings it's time to get the 2 remaining bindings installed on our system.
The gtk libraries can be built once we've got pango and the rest of the bindings installed.
cd C:\tmp\ruby-gtk\gtk
make install
Once this is complete we can move onto the final step, installing gdkpixbuf.
Let's install the gdkpixbuf bindings:
cd C:\tmp\ruby-gtk\gdpixbuf
make install
Once that's all done you should be able to successfully build the green_shoes gem.
If you've made it this far with Ruby 1.9.2 and all the ruby-gtk2 and rcairo stuff installed, you should be able to install the green_shoes gem and start having fun with shoes!
gem install green_shoes
Be sure to let us know on the [email protected] or issue tracker if you run into and problems.