# Setting up ruby-gnome2 for win32 with new Gtk+ and Glade releases **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [August 28, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ruby-gnome2-for-win32-with-new-gtk-and-glade-releases/147068 "2008-08-28T09:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ruby-gnome2-for-win32-with-new-gtk-and-glade-releases/147068/1 "2008-08-28T09:35:00Z")
There are quite recent releases of Gtk+ and Glade for win32 up on [http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/](http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/) Does anyone have any experience using them with ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-1-i386-mswin32.exe? That exe was released over one and a half years ago. Will we see a new release soon? Or are we waiting for a One-Click-Installer built on msys? ---
**Author:** ![Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/df705f/32.png) [@Nikolai\_W](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nikolai_W)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/setting-up-ruby-gnome2-for-win32-with-new-gtk-and-glade-releases/147068/2 "2008-08-29T01:11:23Z")
Nikolai W. wrote: > There are quite recent releases of Gtk+ and Glade for win32 up on > > [http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/](http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/) > > Does anyone have any experience using them with > ruby-gnome2-0.16.0-1-i386-mswin32.exe? That exe was released over one > and a half years ago. Will we see a new release soon? Or are we > waiting for a One-Click-Installer built on msys? AkitaOnRails has created an installer using Luis ruby one click installer 3. Please check his website [[Still playing with Ruby on Windows | AkitaOnRails.com](http://www.akitaonrails.com/2008/7/26/still-playing-with-ruby-on-windows)] and download the installer from [[http://www.akitaonrails.com/files/ruby\_devkit-186-p279.msi](http://www.akitaonrails.com/files/ruby_devkit-186-p279.msi)] This installer come with msys and mingw so that you can compile your own native ruby gems if the gems doesn’t come with binary. If you like to, you can compile the ruby-gnome your self. Please download the gtk + gtk-dev from the gtk website[[http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html](http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html)], I will suggest the bundle download [[http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.12/gtk+-bundle-2.12.11.zip](http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.12/gtk+-bundle-2.12.11.zip)] Extract it to c:\gtk, then add the windows environment Path [c:\gtk\bin] Download the latest ruby-gnome trunk and follow the steps on wiki to compile it. There are some file copying needed for the rcairo if you use the latest rcairo(the version on the wiki is very old). You should able to compile some of the ruby-gnome package(gtk, glib, gnomecanvas…etc). If you like to have extrac package like the Gconf or the gtksourceview2, you need to download the binary and library from the gnome ftp site [[Index of /binaries/win32/](http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/)].(You can download each package manually instead of using the bundle from the link I provided) For the gstream, you need to download the binary and library from gstream website[[http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/](http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/windows/releases/)]. However, for the library, they only provide _.lib but for gcc, we need lib_.a, so you may need other tool to convert the _.lib to lib_.a. Then you should able to compile the gstreamer package. This is very brief overview on how to compile it on windows. They might be few glitch on the compilation. Regards, Shin Guey