Re: problems with gtkmm and windows

[Edd Dawson <lists mr-edd co uk>]

I was meant to reply to the list, originally, rather than you individually -- 
sorry. Posting this back to the list...

Tralfas D wrote:
> ok awesome that really helped alot it actuall didnt give me an error 
> with the pkg-config.
> well i copied all the addresses i got from --cflags and pasted them into 
> c++ compiler under parameters in project options like the guide says. 
> then i copied the addresses from --lib and pasted them into the linker 
> section. so i got that far and i thought i was in the clear but then 
> dev-cpp gave me one error and it looks like this ....
>  C:\Dev-Cpp\Makefile.win [Build Error]  [Untitled3.o] Error 1
>
> something about makefile and not being able to make an object of my 
> program it looks like but i dont know. anyone know?

Is that the complete error message? I can't gleam anything from that, I'm afraid.

> On 9/26/07, *Edd Dawson* <lists mr-edd co uk 
> <mailto:lists mr-edd co uk>> wrote:
>
>     Tralfas D wrote:
>      > I downloaded Glade/Gtk+ for Win32
>     <http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net/>.
>      > then i downloaded gtkmm. i installed all of these in there default
>      > places. the tutorial
>     <http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread90642.html#>
>      > then asks you to typepkg-config --cflags gtkmm-2.4.
>
>     I believe you need to download one of the "devel" packages at:
>     http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binar...32/gtkmm/2.10/
>
>     It sounds like you only have the runtime installed.
>
>      > when i enter this command it gives me an error like this package
>      > gtkmm-2.4 was not found in the pkg-config search path. perhaps you
>      > should add the directory containing 'gtkmm-2.4..pc' to the
>      > PKG_CONFIG_PATH enviroment variable no package 'gtkmm-2.4.' found.
>      >
>      > it does this even if i cd into bin and i restarted my computer
>
>     Once you have installed the devel package, you should have such a
>     file. Add its
>     containing folder to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH. You shouldn't need to
>     restart your
>     computer, only open a new console (which will have the updated
>     environment).