Re: [gnome-love] newbie question on compiling a glib program

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 4/1/07, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I was trying to teach myself GNOME programming
> (using The Official GNOME 2.0 Developer's Guide)
> I wrote the following program:
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <glib.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>         GQuark test_quark;
>
>         test_quark = g_quark_from_string("Santanu");
>         if(!q_quark_try_string("Chatterjee")){
>                 g_print("There is no quark for \"Chatterjee\"\n");
>         }
>         g_print("test_quark is a representation of %s\n",
> q_quark_to_string(test_quark));
>
>         return (0);
> }
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> (Please note that the indentation might get garbled in the
> email)
>
> Then I tried to compile it using:
> $ gcc `pkg-config --clibs --libs glib-2.0` tryglib.c -o tryglib
>
> But I get this:
> ---------------------------
> /tmp/ccwz8ywE.o: In function `main':
> tryglib.c:(.text+0x38): undefined reference to `q_quark_try_string'
> tryglib.c:(.text+0x5a): undefined reference to `q_quark_to_string'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> ---------------------------
>
> What could I have done wrong? I have checked the
> glibc manual using devhelp, and verified that those
> two functions exist.

Just to prevent future confusion, glibc and glib are two different
things.  glib is the general-purpose utility library used by GNOME and
GTK+, glibc is the GNU implementation of the C standard library. :)

--
jonner