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How to install PyGObject, PyCairo using local precompiled GTK-3 environment

  • Download precompiled-sdk.zip, extract bin directory and set it to PATH environment variables.

  • Copy pygobject-pycairo-deps\include, pygobject-pycairo-deps\lib to your Python environment directory. For example, in miniconda python environment, the include path is {CONDA_PATH}\envs\{ENV_NAME}\include, and lib path is {CONDA_PATH}\envs\{ENV_NAME}\libs

  • Config GI_TYPELIB_PATH environment variable.

    set GI_TYPELIB_PATH={YOURPATH}\lib\girepository-1.0

  • Force reinstall pycairo

    pip install --force-reinstall -no-binary :all: pycairo

  • Now you can run your scripts.

Or you can use python wheel to install prebuilt GTK libraries. Only support Py3.7 ~ Py3.10.

pip install --no-binary --force-reinstall :all: pygobject-pycairo-prebuilt-libraries-vs2019

How this pygobject-pycairo-prebuilt-libraries-vs2019 package work?

There're prebuilt pygobject, pycairo packages in it, when you setup this package, it will install the pygobject.whl, pycairo.whl and copy all the prebuilt GTK DLLs to your environment.

Then, you can fix the DLL module path by import this module.

import platform
try:
  from pygobject_prebuilt_deps import import_pygobject_dll_module
  	import_pygobject_dll_module()
except ImportError:
  pass

import gi
import cairo
gi.request_version("GTK", "3.0")

Then import_pygobject_dll_module function will add DLLs path to os.environ['PATH'] and setup the GI_TYPELIB_PATH environment, so that you can easily to import gi and cairo.

Prebuilt PyGobject version: 3.42.2

Prebuilt PyCairo version: 1.21.0