install: No package 'glib-2.0' found

[Jackie Li]

Hi everybody,

I followed the installing instructions on github page, besides that I've also added PKG_CONFIG_PATH C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\lib\pkgconfig;C:\MinGW\lib\pkg-config

But I get this error:

C:\Users\me>go get -u -v github.com/niemeyer/qml

github.com\niemeyer\qml (download)

github.com/niemeyer/qml

# pkg-config --cflags Qt5Core Qt5Widgets Qt5Quick glib-2.0

Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

Perhaps you should add the directory containing `glib-2.0.pc'

to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable

No package 'glib-2.0' found

exit status 1

I looked it up a little bit, and found out this glib is GNOME library. Why is this depending on a GNOME library? and how can solve this?

Thanks very much,

Jackie

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

glib is a dependency of qt itself.

Have you seen the previous threads on the topic:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/go-qml/glib

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[Jackie Li]

Finally! 

Hi Gustavo,

Firstly, thanks so much for making this library!

Here is the steps I went through to make it working: (on Windows 7 64bit)

* uninstall and re-install mingw32: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/latest/download

* install Qt for mingw32 here: http://download.qt-project.org/official_releases/qt/5.1/5.1.1/

* uninstall Go amd64 and install Go386: https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/detail?name=go1.2rc2.windows-386.msi

* set GOARCH=386

* set CPATH=C:\MinGW\include;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\include;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\include\QtCore\5.1.1\QtCore

* set LIBRARY_PATH=C:\MinGW\lib;C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\lib

* set PATH=C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\mingw48_32\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;%path% (!important, put Qt's path in front of MinGW's path otherwise it'll complain libstdc++-6.dll missing as Qt's path contains a different libstd++-6.dll)

* download pkg-config from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pkgconfiglite/files/ and select the latest version and extract to c:\MinGW\bin

* download glib dev version from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php and extract content to c:\MinGW

Then you should be able to go get/build the code.

Somewhere around those lines I think I did something else, but maybe they're not needed.

Hope this helps for whomever want to try it on Windows.

Thanks,

Jackie

[Jackie Li]

Update: also need to install glib runtime from http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php and extract to c:\MinGW