Extra Configuration Options

Enable specific backends for GDK. If none of these options are given, the Wayland backend will be enabled by default, if the platform is Linux; the X11 backend will also be enabled by default, unless the platform is Windows, in which case the default is win32, or the platform is macOS, in which case the default is macOS. If any backend is explicitly enabled or disabled, no other platform will be enabled automatically.

By default, GTK will try to build with support for the Vulkan graphics API in addition to cairo and OpenGL. This option can be used to explicitly control whether Vulkan should be used.

By default, GTK will try to link against the Xinerama libraries if they are found. This option can be used to explicitly control whether Xinerama should be used.

By default, GTK will try to build the gstreamer backend for media playback support. This option can be used to explicitly control which media backends should be built.

By default, GTK will try to build various print backends if their dependencies are found. This option can be used to explicitly control which print backends should be built.

This option controls whether GTK should use libcloudproviders for supporting various Cloud storage APIs in the file chooser.

This option controls whether GTK should include support for tracing with sysprof.

This option controls whether GTK should use Tracker for search support in the file chooser.

This option controls whether GTK should use colord for color calibration support in the cups print backend.

The gtk-doc package is used to generate the reference documentation included with GTK. By default support for gtk-doc is disabled because it requires various extra dependencies to be installed. If you have gtk-doc and pandoc installed and are modifying GTK, you may want to enable gtk-doc support by passing in -Dgtk_doc=true.

Additionally, some tools provided by GTK have their own manual pages generated using a similar set of dependencies; if you have xsltproc then you can generate manual pages by passing -Dman-pages=true when configuring the build.

Allows to disable building introspection support. This is option is mainly useful for shortening turnaround times on developer systems. Installed builds of GTK should always have introspection support.

By default, GTK will build quite a few tests and demos. While these are useful on a developer system, they are not needed when GTK is built e.g. for a flatpak runtime. These options allow to disable building tests and demos.