python - gi.repository Windows

Question

I'm developing an app which has to be 100% compatible on windows and on linux. On linux I have no problems, but on windows I came up with this message: from gi.repository import Gtk ImportError: No module named gi

I installed pygobject, pygtkallinone, gtk.. what am I missing?

Answer 1

Most of Havok answer is correct, except that documentation has been improved a lot lately, with a Tutorial:

• http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Including a PDF version for offline reading:

• http://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/python-gtk-3-tutorial/latest/python-gtk-3-tutorial.pdf

And a complete API reference manual, not only of Gtk but also many other libraries that you can use with introspection:

• http://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/

on windows the support is great, a lot of effort has been put in creating all the windows executables and libraries, the last release of pygi-aio is 3.10.6:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygobjectwin32/files/?source=navbar

I've also put instructions on the Gnome wiki on how to build on win32 with pygobject introspection, it's not that hard, I've also uploaded a setup.py that actually works:

• https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/PyGObject?action=show&redirect=PyGObject#Building_on_Win32_with_cx_freeze

So the answer is, don't go with PyGTK