Re: GUI with Go

[Staffan Thomén <duck%shangtai.net@localhost>]

On 05.09 12:42, Niels Müller Larsen wrote:
> Has anyone here played with GUI programming in ⁨#go⁩ on ⁨#netbsd⁩? I 
> have tried ⁨#tk⁩ and ⁨#fyne⁩. They both fail the hello world test, I 
> tried on my newly installed ⁨#netbsd11⁩, and with the same negative 
> result on the other laptop's ⁨#netbsd10⁩.
>
> ⁨#tk⁩ lacks some eval functions. if I use the same code on openbsd, 
> there are error msg about a systemcall.
>
> ⁨#fyne⁩ lacks some ⁨#wayland⁩ related header files. (I don't do 
> wayland :) I have installed the required prereqs as written on the 
> fyne. Theheader files are present on the system, but elsewhere. If I 
> ln them where the error msg says they are needed, I get other errors 
> also related to wayland.
>
> If anyone has experience with either, I would very much appreciate a 
> hint.

Hi, I have tried; fyne was the framework I stuck with on other platforms
since it seemed the least bad but on NetBSD the build broke way deep
in the depends, apparently because skia isn't available as a binary
package(?). At that point I was so out of my depth that I just gave up.

The other one I remember having some success with was libui-ng
(github.com/libui-ng/golang-ui) which should display widgets using gtk+,
but it wasn't as nice to use. I haven't tried if it still works, and 
libui-ng (the C library) might be dead.

I guess we have the compounding problems of go being typecast for
webservices and netbsd being somewhat overshadowed by the penguin hordes.

Staffan