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Dasher

Build: Dasher-GTK (GTK4 / Linux)

A C++ frontend using GTK4 / gtkmm, primarily for Linux but also buildable on macOS and Windows as a fallback. The authoritative source is the repo README.

Branches

  • main — stable development
  • feature/v6-capi-migration — the active CAPI-based GTK4 frontend (uses the DasherCore feature-CAPI submodule). Build from here for v6.

Prerequisites

  • CMake 3.20+, a C++17 compiler
  • GTK4 + gtkmm development files:
    • macOS: brew install gtk4 gtkmm4 pkg-config cmake
    • Debian/Ubuntu: apt install libgtk-4-dev libgtkmm-4.0-dev pkg-config cmake
    • Windows: a GTK stack (e.g. via GVSBuild) at C:\gtk

Build

git clone --recurse-submodules -b feature/v6-capi-migration https://github.com/dasher-project/Dasher-GTK.git
cd Dasher-GTK
cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j

Run from inside build/Dasher/ so the relative "Data" path resolves:

cd build/Dasher
./Dasher

How DasherCore is consumed

DasherCore (submodule) is built via CMake into the CAPI shared library and linked directly into the Dasher executable; headers are consumed from DasherCore/src/:

set(BUILD_CAPI ON CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
add_subdirectory("DasherCore")
target_link_libraries(Dasher PRIVATE dasher ...)

Runtime data (alphabets, colours, training) is copied post-build from DasherCore/Data/ and DasherCore/Strings/.