Re: Compiling problems

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

The pkg-config part shoudl be in backquotes (`pkg-config ...`) rather
than in single quotes ('pkg-config...')

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 19:04, gtk-app-devel-list-admin gnome org wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for helping me to get gtk installed.  Now, I'm trying to
> run the first app from
> the tutorial:
>
> http://gtk.org/tutorial/ch-gettingstarted.html
>
> But when I run gcc as they say, this is the output:
>
> ---------------------------
> [root g3216064 tutorial]# gcc base.c -o base 'pkg-config --cflags --libs
> gtk+-2.0'
> gcc: pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0: No such file or directory
> base.c:1:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
> base.c: In function `main':
> base.c:6: `GtkWidget' undeclared (first use in this function)
> base.c:6: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> base.c:6: for each function it appears in.)
> base.c:6: `window' undeclared (first use in this function)
> base.c:10: `GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL' undeclared (first use in this function)
> ---------------------------
>
> Now, when I run pkg-config on the commandline by itself, I get a bunch of
> compiler flags on the
> output, so I ran this:
>
>
> ---------------------------
> [root g3216064 tutorial]# gcc base.c -o base -I/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0
> -I/usr/local/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/atk-1.0
> -I/usr/local/include/pango-1.0
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include
> -Wl,--export-dynamic -L/usr/local/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0
> -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm
> -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
> ---------------------------
>
> And I still recieve an error message about not being able to find gtk.h.
> So, I manually found
> gtk.h, and added that path as an include option on the above command line
> sting
> (-I/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0), and I finally got the the short program to
> compile.  My question
> is:  is there an easy way to do this?  I thought the point of pkg-config
> was to make it easy to
> generate the correct options at compile time?  Am I missing something?
> Does gcc need to be setup
> to use pkg-config?  Forgive, I know C, but my compiler knowledge is very,
> very shallow (came from
> a windows worlds with Visual C++.  I'm really sorry I ever learned it...).
>
> Also, anyone know of any good, intro tutorials to using gcc?  I know I can
> read the docs, but
> maybe something is out there for an idiot like me.
>
> Chris
>
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Biswa.