Re: gnome and pthreads

[todd <taf2 lehigh edu>]

Frank W. Miller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a code snippet in my main.c that looks like this:
>
>        g_thread_init(NULL);
>        gdk_threads_init();
>        gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>
>        ...
>
>        gdk_threads_enter();
>        gtk_main();
>        gdk_threads_leave();
>
> This is supposed to set up the ability to use Gnome in a threaded 
> application.  Trouble is I'm getting link errors when I try to build it:
>
> gcc `gnome-config --libs gnome gnomeui` -L../src -o sip callbacks.o 
> gui.o log.o main.o ringback.o -lsip -lpthread
> main.o(.text+0x10a): In function `main':
> : undefined reference to `g_thread_init'
> main.o(.text+0x112): In function `main':
> : undefined reference to `gdk_threads_init'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> The interesting thing I'm not getting undefine'ds for 
> gdk_threads_enter() and gdk_threads_leave().  I would luv it if I could 
> get some advice on this from someone.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> FM

You need to link to gthread-2.0

i.e. `pkg-config gthread-2.0 --cflags --libs`

-todd