RE: RE: GTK+ and MinGw..............

[martyn 2 russell bt com]

> > I set the "include" path in the PATH variable as follows:
>
> > Path = c:\MinGw\bin;c:\gtk2dev\bin;c:\gtk2dev\program 
> files\common files\gtk\2.0\lib;c:\gtk2dev\program 
> files\common files\gtk\2.0\bin;c:\gtk2dev\include
>
> Egads. Why do you add the *include* directories to your *PATH*? PATH
> is the list of folders from where Windows looks for executable
> programs and DLLs. It has nothing to do with looking for header files.
>
> You should pass the folders from which to look for header files to the
> compiler using -I switches. Try reading the documentation for gcc (or
> any other Unix-style command-line C compiler).

D'oh - what I was I thinking? *hangs head in shame*

You're right Tor, no need for the include directory to be in the path
settings.

Usually - I have <top>\bin and <top>\lib in my path and <top>\bin has
pkg-config. I just use pkg-config to tell me the cflags and libs after that.


Regards,
Martyn