Re: Missing files by using GTK with Windows?

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

Christian Schneider writes:
 > glibconfig.h is in
 > D:\Software-Entwicklung\Dev-Cpp\lib\glib-2.0

(You mean in the "include" subfolder there, at least that's where it
is supposed to be, if you have a standard hierarchy.)

 > But why it is there?

Because the headers in <top>/include/glib-2.0 are platform-independent
(the same on all platforms where GLib runs), while the glibconfig.h
file's contents depends on the platform, and possibly even compiler
used. (For Win32, a specially handcrafted version of glibconfig.h is
distributed, that works for both gcc and MSVC. But in general
glibconfig.h is tailored specifically for one compiler on one
platform.)

 > I found a document from the
 > internet that it is there because "configure.in" need
 > it. But can "configure.in" used under Windows as well?

It doesn't need it, it generates it. Yes, configure.in is used to
produce a configure script on Windows, too.

 > Should I always add the
 > D:\Software-Entwicklung\Dev-Cpp\lib\glib-2.0 to the
 > "includes" 

(The "include" subfolder of it.) Yes.

 > > Well, do the correct -I switches get passed to the
 > > compiler? 

 > Excuse me, I'm a newbie. Do you mean with "-I" the
 > linking?

No, I mean the switches that are passed to the compiler that tell it
where to look for header files.

 > Now I get a lot of errors like:
 > [Linker error] undefined reference to `g_malloc'
 > [Linker error] undefined reference to

You need to tell the linker to look in the libglib-2.0.dll.a
library.

 > `gtk_label_get_type'

And libgtk-win32-2.0.dll.a.

 > I found in a help file that I can add linking files
 > with "Projekt Optionen"->"Parameter"->"Linker". But
 > how can I use pkg-config there?

Not directly, I assume. Run "pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0" manually,
and copy-pastes what it outputs to the Linker dialog.

(Stuff like this should really be covered in Dev-C++
documentation. Feel free to forward to the Dev-C++ maintainers, or to
the people offering GTK for Dev-C++.)

--tml