If you never had any Gtk+ based application on your system (for example bitmap editor GIMP) you will need to install Gtk+ run-time environment on your computer prior to Gwyddion installation. Gtk+ is a library designed for portable creating of graphical user interface (windows, buttons, etc.) that is available on many operating systems. Therefore applications using Gtk+ can be ported to various operating systems, including Microsoft Windows.

Note that there are several Gtk+ packages for MS Windows operating systems available on the internet. Some of them include all required components (like GtkGLExt and LibXML2), some do not. We recommend GladeWin32 packages that are known to contain all required components and we build Gwyddion MS Windows executables with them.

For installation of Gwyddion follow these steps: