Putty compiled with gtk-1.2 instead of gtk-2

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: putty

Putt has for a while been able to compile with the GTK 2 toolkit instead of 1.2. I just compiled it myself on Ubuntu Hardy and it works nicely and looks a LOT better. Why not compile against gtk-2 in Ubuntu?

Steps I took to compile & install it:

wget http://tartarus.org/~simon/putty-snapshots/putty.tar.gz
tar -zxvf putty.tar.gz
cd putty-0*
./mkfiles.pl
cd unix
make -f Makefile.gtk
sudo make -f Makefile.gtk install

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

Confirmed.

[leibra (rupesh-iitd)]

Hello there,

I performed the same steps, but i am getting error that is :

cc -O2 -Wall -Werror -g -I.././ -I../charset/ -I../windows/ -I../unix/ -I../mac/ -I../macosx/ `sh -c 'pkg-config gtk+-2.0 $0 2>/dev/null || gtk-config $0' --cflags` -D _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 `krb5-config --cflags gssapi` -c ../be_all_s.c
--cflags: 1: gtk-config: not found
/bin/sh: krb5-config: not found
../be_all_s.c:6:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../puttyps.h:22,
                 from ../putty.h:26,
                 from ../be_all_s.c:7:
../unix/unix.h:12: error: ‘FILENAME_MAX’ undeclared here (not in a function)
../unix/unix.h:14: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
In file included from ../misc.h:8,
                 from ../putty.h:28,
                 from ../be_all_s.c:7:
../puttymem.h:9:47: error: string.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../putty.h:28,
                 from ../be_all_s.c:7:
../misc.h:12:59: error: time.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../putty.h:28,
                 from ../be_all_s.c:7:
../misc.h:32: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
make: *** [be_all_s.o] Error 1

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Finally I am not able to install. please give some solution.

With Regards

[Jacob Nevins (0jacobnk-ulp)]

There hasn't yet been an upstream release of PuTTY with Gtk 2 support -- it's only available in code snapshots (which is what you've compiled). I suspect the package maintainer won't want to package a snapshot, which could have all sorts of things wrong with it.

The upstream record for Gtk 2 support is <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/port-unix-gtk2.html>, FWIW.

(@leibra: you probably need to install a bunch of -dev packages, on Ubuntu. Not having stdio.h is fairly fatal!)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

What Jacob said - I'm waiting for a new upstream release, at which point I'll be more than happy to switch to GTK 2 (since I contributed to the port!). I'll mark this bug "in progress" pending that happening, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package putty - 0.60+2009-04-05-1

---------------
putty (0.60+2009-04-05-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New experimental development snapshot.
    - Stop attempting to make session logs private on Unix. This was
      introduced in r7084 at the same time as sensible permissions when
      writing private key files; however, it causes an assertion failure
      whenever an attempt is made to append to an existing log file on Unix,
      and it's not clear what "is_private" *should* do for append, so revert
      to log file security being the user's responsibility (LP: #212711).
    - Cope with GTK+ 2.0 encoding keypress strings in the current locale
      rather than in ISO-8859-1 (closes: #517535).

putty (0.60+2009-02-22-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New experimental development snapshot.
    - Uses GTK+ 2.0 (closes: #516641, LP: #271277) and as a result supports
      Unicode window titles (LP: #48781).
    - Fixes handling of trailing CR in key files (closes: #414784).
  * Disabled upstream Kerberos support for now, as it produces unwanted
    linkage in pterm and other binaries.

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