Re: [gtk-list] gtk installation

[Michael Dartt <mad96 hampshire edu>]

You need to *backquote* the options (gtk-config, etc.), i.e. use `, not
'


You (and others) might find this helpful--it's a shell script I use for
compiling single GTK+ files (I call it "gtkc"):

#!/bin/bash
gcc -Wall -g $1.c -o $1 `gtk-config --cflags --libs`


garrett beaubien wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a little bit new to Linux and would like to learn Linux programming.  I
> have installed Red hat Linux 6.0 on my system.  I was wanting to use the GTK
> development tools, so I installed the gtk+- package (version 1.2.1-10) and
> the gtk+ package (also version 1.2.1-10).  I copied the code from the GTK
> tutorial (on the gimp web site) and tried to compile, but it didn't work.
> 
> The following is the code:
> 
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> 
> int main(argc, char *argv[])
> {
> GtkWidget *window;
> gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
> window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
> gtk_widget_show(window);
> 
> gtk_main();
> return(0);
> 
> }
> 
> Here is what happens when I try and compile (using the command given in the
> gtk tutorial):
> 
> [garrett@localhost programming]$ gcc first_gtk.c -o first_gtk 'gtk-config
> --cflags --libs'
> In file included from /usr/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:33,
>                  from /usr/include/gdk/gdk.h:31,
>                  from /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h:31,
>                  from first_gtk.c:1:
> /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory
> [garrett@localhost programming]$
> 
> when I used RPM to "query" the packages, I found that glibconfig.h belongs
> to the glib-devel package (which I also have installed).  Does anyone know
> what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Garrett.
> 
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