Update dependencies list in README #90
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Add complete list of dependencies
Add complete list of dependencies required to build gtkcord4.
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| ### Dependencies | |||
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| gtkcord4 needs GTK4, gobject-introspection, and optionally libcanberra. If compiling, then the library | |||
| headers are also required. | |||
| Gtkcord4 needs the following dependencies met: | |||
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Can you change this to lower-case?
| Gtkcord4 needs the following dependencies met: | ||
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| golang git gtk4-devel gobject-introspection gobject-introspection-devel |
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Also, what distro are these packages for? Why are there -devel packages?
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On Fedora and RHEL (and likely others), the -devel suffix is used instead of -dev.
These are needed at compile time for the library headers iirc.
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@diamondburned, @asparkswghs is correct. Without these -devel packages (Fedora's equivolent to -dev), the system does not have the libraries necessary to compile GTK4 applications such as your own. Same with gobject.... I've tested, and indeed installing these two packages is all that's necessary for the build to succeed on Fedora. Otherwise, your compile will not finish.
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Can we have a separate section for Fedora packages then? This seems to be pertaining to just Fedora.
Also, since so many people insist, I think it'd be better to just list out all the dependencies on every distro that people care enough about to PR in.
fixed capitalization
I've changed the dependencies section to now list every program the user must install to compile the program. The previous instructions were somewhat vague, and did not include
gobject-introspection-develorgtk4-develwhich are important and can cause a build to fail.