Thank you again, David. I followed your installation instructions, and with a few warnings, your hello-world example (eventually) ran. I can submit what I saw to the bug-g-golf@gnu.org address.

I also got clipboard.scm to run, with one error.

I think for Jessica's and Ricardo's sakes, and because it's the right thing to do, we can close bug #57379 and carry on elsewhere.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:54 AM David Pirotte <david@altosw.be> wrote:

Hello Lee,

> Thanks again, David.

Welcome.

> I was able to use a solution from Ricardo to get guile-gi to run
> under guix

I hope Ricardo, possibly with the help of other guix contributor's will
find a solution so that g-golf may also run 'out of the box' on guix.

> guile 3.0.7, which I hope would be OK.

Yes, you need guile 2.0, 2.2 or 3.0, in which case it must be >= 3.0.7

> For g-golf, would you > recommend I clone your github repo and
> compile it . . . ?

Yes, installing from the source tree instructions are here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/install.html

[ just 'stick' to the master branch, although I may recommend
[ to use the devel branch 'in the future', at this moment the
[ devel branch is in a wip stage.

Two things to add to those instructions:

1.
to run the checks, 'make check', you'd need two additional
dependencies:

gir1.2-clutter-1.0:amd64
gir1.2-gtk-3.0:amd64

I'll get rid of those dependencies before the first official
release, but for now, some tests use either clutter or gtk-3

2.

to run g-golf examples, you need to install

gir1.2-gtk-4.0:amd64

you may try the examples before installing, like this:

cd <...g-golf-tree...>/examples/gtk-4
../../pre-inst-env ./hello-world.scm

This page shows a screenshot for each example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/g-golf/learn.html

Let me kow how it goes,
Thanks,
David