Re: Compiling glib applications

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 14:46 +0200, Lanoxx wrote:
> Today I was writing some simple glib application and had a look at
> this page [1], to get some advice on how to compile and link my
> program with glib. However for me the advice was not entirely correct,
> since it give this example line:
> > cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0` hello.c -o hello
> I adjusted it a bit to my file names and added c99 support:
> 
>     gcc `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0` `pkg-config --libs glib-2.0`
> main.c -o main --std=c99
> 
> But it turns out this is wrong, and the correct way is:
> 
>     gcc main.c `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0` `pkg-config --libs
> glib-2.0` -o main --std=c99

Or, more simply:

gcc main.c `pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 <other-lib> <another-lib>` -o main.c

No need to have multiple pkg-config invocations at all; one does just
fine.

Dan