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Is it possible to run this project on Windows? (Because it seems to be based on Gtk)

Hi,

I tried your project on a current fedora 38 with dotnet 6 / 7 installed. Unfortunately it did not work out. It looks like the code in GtkSharp is hard coding an old webkitgtk library.

Unhandled exception. System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'WebKit.WebView' threw an exception.
 ---> System.DllNotFoundException: Webkit: libwebkit2gtk-4.0.dll, libwebkit2gtk-4.0.so.37, libwebkit2gtk-4.0.dylib, libwebkit2gtk-4.0.0.dll
   at GLibrary.Load(Library library)
   at WebKit.WebView..cctor()

As this project looks quite interesting, I wonder what your thoughts are in regard to base it on Gir.Core? Gir.Core supports Gtk4 and current WebKitGtk versions. It follows the binaries inside the current gnome Flatpak SDK. This allows to create Flatpaks which can be distributed via Flathub.

But the project and API is not complete or guaranteed to be stable, so it is quite possible that the APIs you are relying on are not yet generated or are even not supported anymore as there was some API break on WebKitGTK side.

As I'm actively working on Gir.Core, I would be interested in making the needed API available to you.

I created a small issue on my side gircore/gir.core#931 to keep your project in my mind in case you are not interested as I think it could benefit a lot of users. If you like, the project could even be part of Gir.Core itself as it looks like that not much code is needed maintenance wise.

https://github.com/tryphotino/photino.Blazor

Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native,
cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.

Photino.Blazor builds on Photino.NET to add Blazor capabilities.

Photino uses the OSs built-in WebKit-based browser control for Windows, macOS and Linux. Photino is the lightest cross-platform framework. Compared to Electron, a Photino app is up to 110 times smaller! And it uses far less system memory too!

What's the project status? Do we expect to see a nuget package for it in near future?