nomad-software / goat

GUI toolkit for the Go programming language based on Tcl/Tk

Goat

GUI toolkit for the Go programming language based on Tcl/Tk.

Overview

Goat is a fully cross-platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk. Goat allows you to build GUI applications easily and with the knowledge of a consistent, native look and feel on every platform.

Screenshots

Compiled on Linux

Documentation

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/nomad-software/goat

Supported platforms

• Linux
• MacOS

Windows

It would be quite trivial to support windows but I don't have access to a Windows machine for development. Pull requests are welcome in this respect.

Dependencies

Install Tcl and Tk header files and libraries.

Linux

sudo apt install tcl-dev tk-dev

MacOS

brew install --cask xquartz
brew install tcl-tk

• https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/xquartz
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tcl-tk

This is completely untested!

Windows

These would be provided by DLLs. See https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd#windows-1

This is completely untested!