Re: Newbie desperated!

[Russell Keith-Magee <keithmag cs curtin edu au>]

Nicolas Raitman wrote:
> I am using Red Hat 7.0 and when I
> try to compile I get the following message, but no executable file is made:
>
> gcc test.1 -o test 'gtk-config -cflags'

I presume this is a typo - it should be "gcc test.c ..."
 
> Please help!! What am I doing wrong? I tried executing only
> gtk-config --cflags and I get the correct output, as well as with
> gtk-config --libs, what is wrong??

To compile like this you will need both --cflags and --libs; in
addition, you need to put the gtk-config command in back quotes (`) not
forward quotes ('). Try:

gcc test.c -o test `gtk-config --cflags --libs`

That should do the job.

Russ Magee %-)

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