Re: gtk+ installation problems

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

David Levner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to port/rewrite an old DOS application I wrote
> to Linux using gtk+. I bought a Lindows machine and am
> having so much trouble getting gtk+ installed properly
> that I think my purchase may have been a mistake. (I
> have Lindows 4.0 which is a Debian version of Linux.)
>
> Here are some examples of the troubles I am having:
>
> I installed gtk and glib 2.0 and various other
> packages with the Debian package manager dpkg. But
> none of the sample gtk+ programs compiled because the
> Makefile uses pkg-config and there are no .pc files
> anywhere to be found.

install the -dev versions of the libraries which
have the .pc files.