List of language bindings for GTK

As shown in the table below, GTK has a range of bindings for various languages^[1] that implement some or all of its feature set. GTK 2 is no longer supported, meaning some languages below do not have current GTK support.

• GObject (GOB) was initially written as a central component of GTK, but outsourced into GLib.
• GObject Introspection is a middleware layer between C libraries (using GObject) and language bindings, e.g. PyGObject uses this, while PyGTK does not.^[2]
• Official GNOME Bindings follow the GNOME release schedule which guarantees API stability and time-based releases.
• Glade Interface Designer

Language	Name	Supported?					License	Notes
		2.24	3.12	4.0	GIR	Official
Ada	GtkAda	Partial	Partial	?	Yes	No	GPL-3	Supported up to 3.14.[3][4]
C	GTK	Yes	Yes	Yes	—	Yes	LGPL-2.1	Native, no binding needed.
C++	gtkmm	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	LGPL-2.1
C# and other CLI languages	Gtk#	Partial	No	?	No	Yes	LGPL-2.1	Support for GTK 2 is available up to 2.12.[5]
	GtkSharp	No	Yes	No	No	No	LGPL-2.1	Support for GTK 3 is available up to 3.22.
	Gir.Core	?	?	Partial	Partial	No	MIT
Crystal	crystal-gobject	No	Yes	Partial	Yes	No	BSD
	gtk4.cr	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	MIT
D	GtkD	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	No	LGPL-3 with exceptions[6]	Supported since 2.12
Erlang	gtknode	Partial	No	?	No	No	MIT[7]	No, partly supported up to 2.16
Fortran	gtk-fortran	Partial	Partial	Partial	No	No	GPL-3	Supported since 2.24. Supports GTK 3 and GTK 4.
FreeBASIC	FreeBASIC GTK bindings	Yes	Partial	?	No	No	LGPL-3 with exception	Supported up to 3.4 and since 2.8, integrated into the core distribution.
Gambas	Gambas gb.gtk component	Yes	Partial	?	No	No	GPL-2	Secondary to the primary Qt components
Genie	Genie	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LGPL-2.1	language written for GObject system
Go	go-gir-generator	?	?	?	Yes	No	GPL-3
	gotk3	No	Partial	?	No	No	ISC[8]
Guile	guile-gnome	Partial	No	?	No	No	GPL-2	supported up to 2.12, partly supported on 2.14
Haskell	Gtk2Hs	Yes	Partial	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1	Gtk2Hs is a set of Haskell bindings to many of the libraries included in the GTK/GNOME platform.
	haskell-gi	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1	Generate Haskell bindings for GObject Introspection capable libraries
J	J GTK addon	Partial	No	?	No	No	GPL-3
Java and other JVM languages	java-gnome	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	GPL-2 with exception	Unavailable on Microsoft Windows
Julia	Gtk4.jl	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	MIT	Includes Glib support
JavaScript	Gjs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	MIT	GNOME wiki, based on Mozilla's SpiderMonkey
	Node-Gtk	No	Yes	Partial	Yes	No	MIT	Dynamic Node.js binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
	Seed	Yes	Yes	?	Yes	Yes	LGPL-2.1	GNOME wiki, based on WebKit's JavaScriptCore
Kotlin/Native	gtk-kt	No	Partial	Partial	Partial	No	AGPL-3.0	Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent.
	gtk-kn	No	No	No	Partial	No	LGPL-3	Partial due to being In development, Usable to an extent.
Lua	LGI	Partial	Yes	?	Yes	No	MIT[9]	Dynamic Lua binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
	lgob	No	Yes	?	Yes	No	LGPL-3	lgob provides bindings of GObject-based libraries for Lua 5.1.
Nim	gintro	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	MIT	High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim language
OCaml	LablGtk	Partial	Partial	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1 with exception	No, supported up to 2.16
ooRexx	RexxGTK	Partial	No	?	No	No	CPL	Yes, 2.0 or later
Objective-C	CoreGTK	No	Partial	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1
	ObGTK	Partial	No	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1
	Objective-C GTK	Partial	No	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1
Pascal	Free Pascal gtk package	Yes	Yes	?	No	No	LGPL-3 with exception	Supported up to 2.24, integrated into the core distribution. Gtk 3.0 bindings are being developed in the Lazarus-ccr project.[10]
Perl	Gtk2-Perl	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	LGPL-2.1
PHP	PHP-GTK	Partial	Partial[11]	?	No	No	LGPL-2.1	PHP until 5.2, GTK is GTK2
Prolog	PLGI	Partial	Yes	?	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1	Dynamic Prolog binding to GObject libraries using GObject-Introspection.
Python	pgi	Partial	Partial	?	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1	GObject Introspection Bindings for PyPy.
	pygir-ctypes	Partial	Partial	?	Yes	No	BSD	Pure Python GObject Introspection Repository (GIR) wrapper using ctypes.
	PyGObject	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LGPL-2.1	since 2.22[12]
	PyGTK	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	LGPL-2.1	static bindings, use PyGObject
R	RGtk2	Partial	No	?	No	No	GPL-2	RGtk2.pdf Archived 2016-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
Racket	gir	?	?	?	Yes	No	MIT[13]
Ruby	GirFFI-Gtk	Partial	Partial	?	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1	GirFFI-based bindings for GTK. Supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3.
	Ruby-GNOME2 Archived 2008-08-21 at the Wayback Machine	Partial	Yes	Yes	No	No	MIT License	Partial, supported up to 2.12, partly supported since 2.14[14]
Rust	gtk-rs	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	MIT[15]
	gi-rust	No	Yes	?	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1
Smalltalk	GNU Smalltalk GTK+ bindings	Yes	No	?	No	No	GPL-2
	Smalltalk YX GTK plugin	Yes	No	?	No	No	MIT
	SqueakGtk	Partial	No	?	No	No	MIT
Standard ML	Giraffe Library	No	Yes	?	Yes	No	LGPL-2.1
Tcl	Gnocl	Yes	No	?	No	No	BSD
Vala	Vala	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	LGPL-2.1	language written for GObject system
Wrapl	Wrapl GTK+ module	Partial	No	?	No	No	GPL-3	No, but almost full up to 2.22

Gtk#

Gtk#

Developer(s)	Xamarin
Initial release	March 12, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-03-12)
Stable release	2.12.41[16] / September 22, 2016; 8 years ago (2016-09-22)
Preview release	2.99.3 (for GTK3)[16] / June 6, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-06-06)
Repository	https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp
Written in	C#, XML, Perl, C
Operating system	Windows, macOS, Linux
Type	Widget toolkit
License	GNU Lesser General Public License
Website	mono-project.com/GtkSharp

Gtk# is a set of .NET Framework bindings for the GTK graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. The library facilitates building graphical GNOME applications using Mono or any other compliant Common Language Runtime (CLR). Gtk# is an event-driven system like any other modern windowing library where every widget allows associating handler methods, which get called when certain events occur.^{[citation needed]}

Applications built using Gtk# will run on many platforms including Linux, Windows and macOS. The Mono packages for Windows include GTK, Gtk# and a native theme to make applications look like native Windows applications. Starting with Mono 1.9, running Gtk# applications on macOS no longer requires running an X11 server.^[17]

Glade Interface Designer can be used with the Glade# bindings to easily design GUI applications. A GUI designer named Stetic is integrated with the MonoDevelop integrated development environment (IDE).

In addition to support the standard GTK/GNOME stack of development tools, the gtk-dotnet.dll assembly provides a bridge to consume functionality available on the .NET stack. At this point this includes the functionality to use System.Drawing to draw on a widget.^{[citation needed]}

As of September 2020^[update], Gtk# support for Gtk3 remains in the preview phase and forked projects, such as GtkSharp, have been founded to provide full Gtk3 support for C# and other CLI languages. The lack of a released version of Gtk# with support for Gtk3 was cited as a reason to remove the Banshee media player in Ubuntu 12.04.^[18]

See also

• List of language bindings for Qt 4
• List of language bindings for Qt 5
• List of language bindings for wxWidgets

References

1. "Language Bindings". The GTK Project. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
2. "GObject Introspection".
3. "1. Introduction: What is GtkAda ? — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
4. "10. Object-oriented features — GtkAda 22.0w documentation".
5. "GtkSharp | Mono".
6. "GtkD License LGPL-3 with additional exceptions". GitHub. 19 November 2021.
7. "gtknode license". GitHub. 11 March 2021.
8. "gotk3 license". GitHub. 17 August 2021.
9. "LGI license". GitHub. 20 November 2021.
10. http://wiki.freepascal.org/Gtk%2B3
11. Alexandre Pereira Bühler (2015-06-22). "Attention: created branch dev-php-gtk3". PHP-GTK General Mailing List.
12. "PyGObject History". Retrieved 2013-08-29.
13. "1. Main interface". GitHub. 6 February 2022.
14. Ruby-GNOME2 Project Team. "gtk3 / Rubygems". Retrieved 2013-05-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
15. "GTK-rs license". GitHub. 17 November 2021.
16. "Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono: mono/gtk-sharp". November 16, 2019. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved September 1, 2016 – via GitHub.
17. "Download Gtk#". The GTK+ Project. Archived from the original on December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
18. "'Bansheegeddon' may see Banshee, Mono dropped from Ubuntu default". ITWorld. Archived from the original on July 10, 2015. Retrieved August 31, 2015.