FindGTK

Finds GTK, glib and GTKGLArea.

GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

Note

This module works only on Unix-like systems and was intended for early GTK branch of 1.x, which is no longer maintained. Use the latest supported GTK version and FindPkgConfig module to find GTK in CMake instead of this module. For example:

find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(GTK REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET gtk4>=4.14)
target_link_libraries(example PRIVATE PkgConfig::GTK)

Result Variables

This module defines the following variables:

GTK_FOUND

Boolean indicating whether GTK is found.

GTK_GL_FOUND

Boolean indicating whether GTK's GL features are found.

GTK_INCLUDE_DIR

Include directories containing headers needed to use GTK.

GTK_LIBRARIES

Libraries needed to link against for using GTK.

Examples

Finding GTK 1.x and creating an interface imported target that encapsulates its usage requirements for linking to a project target:

find_package(GTK)

if(GTK_FOUND)
  add_library(GTK::GTK INTERFACE IMPORTED)
  set_target_properties(
    GTK::GTK
    PROPERTIES
      INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${GTK_INCLUDE_DIR}"
      INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "${GTK_LIBRARIES}"
  )
endif()

target_link_libraries(example PRIVATE GTK::GTK)

See Also

• The FindGTK2 module to find GTK version 2.