Re: glinconfig.h

[Russell Keith-Magee <keithmag cs curtin edu au>]

> Cary Fu wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>      I try to compile GTK application, but it always fails with error
> message "glibconfig.h: No such file or directory". Anyone know
> how and where I can get this head file. Thanks for any help.

You should already have it from when you installed GTK (or the gtk-devel
package, if you used RPM's, or similar if you used debs) - but you need
to tell gcc where it is, because it isn't in the default include path.
GTK provides a script file called gtk-config which yields the neccessary
-I and -L directives for gcc; there are similar scripts called
glib-config, gdk-pixbuf-config, gnome-config, and *-config for just
about every other GTK derived library.

To use it: Say you have a file called mytest.c, which is to be compiled
to the executable mytest.

At the moment you are probably using:

gcc -o mytest mytest.c

This yields the glibconfig.c error. To fix, use

gcc -o mytest mytest.c `gtk-config --cflags --libs`

Note - these are back quotes around the gtk-config bit. mytest.c should
now compile.

Enjoy,
Russ %-)

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