Re: beginners question

[Dave Smith <davecindysmith comcast net>]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 05:38, August C. Quint wrote:

> I have an older book here about Linux programming with some examples in
> Gtk+, but the sources do not compile on my machine (the CD contains sources
> and executables and the executables do run). I think my problem is the
> following line in the make-file:
>
>         gcc `gtk-config --cflags --libs`    .......
>
> but there is no file gtk-config on my machine. Somewhere I found a hint
> that gtk-config does no longer exists, one should use pkg-config instead.
> But again I do not find this on my machine.
>
> What's wrong here? Did I forget to install a package?
>
> Thanks.
> August

Hi August,

You can find pkg-config at:
        http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig

To compile a gtk+ program, use:
        `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0`

Dave