Re: How to make the sample application

[Thomas Danckaert <thomas danckaert gmail com>]

From: Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>
Subject: Re: How to make the sample application
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:41:59 -0500

> (Just a quick note)
> Makefile.am is an automake file. From briefly glancing at it, it appears
> to reference git.mk in the root of the gtk+ repo.
>
> So perhaps the example applications aren't meant to be built separately,
> and there's some way to build them all together.
>
> Also, usually Makefile.am files are accompanied by configure.ac files
> and autogen.sh files (in which case you'd run ./autogen.sh; ./configure;
> make; make install)

and these files can be found at the root of the project.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/

the text file 'HACKING' explains it.

So you should probably check out the complete repository, and run
autogen.sh in the root directory to generate proper Makefiles for the
example applications.

Thomas