Re: troubles compiling with gcc when using pkg-config

["Richard Warren" <rew primagraphics co uk>]

Firstly, are you sure that you're using back-ticks rather than apostrophes
(i.e. ` rather than ')?  Apostrophes are normally on the same key as either
quotes (") or the @ symbol.  Back-ticks are on another key (often top-left
of the keyboard).

Wrapping the pkg-config command in apostrophes (also called single-quotes
sometimes) will simply pass that as a single filename to gcc to compile.
Wrapping it in back-ticks will pass the _results_ of that command to gcc
(which is what you need).

Secondly, if anjuta is using gtk-config rather than pkg-config then it's
using GTK 1.2.x rather than GTK 2.

Hope that helps,
Richard.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Smeringe" <david smeringe telia com>
To: <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 1:48 AM
Subject: troubles compiling with gcc when using pkg-config


> Hi there!
>
> I'm trying to compile the very first example from the gtk+ 2.0 tutorial
> on www.gtk.org (creating an empty 200x200px window). When I'm trying to
> compile it using gcc gtktest.c -o gtktest 'pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0'
> it returns:
> [..]
> gcc: pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0: No such file or directory
> [..]
> But when I'm trying to compile it using the anjuta IDE and including
> desired libraries it works. But, as I understood it, it's just because
> anjuta is using the old way of compiling (such as 'gtk-config --cflags'
> instead of pkg-config).
>
> When I'm running the pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 on it's own it returns
> a bunch of include paths that seems valid.
>
> I tried to pass these values by hand instead of calling pkg-config but
> then I got a huge list of parsing errors.. but gcc found the files at
> least.. :-)
>
> What am I doing wrong here? (
> Worth of note is that I'm originally a java developer and very new to
> C.)
>
> Regards,
> --
> David Smeringe <david smeringe telia com>
>
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