Re: gtk-config needed

[John Cupitt <john cupitt ng-london org uk>]

gtk-config is not usually used on win32 as far as I know. To build a gtk 1.2 program you need pkg-config. Tell configure to use pkg-config instead by typing something like:

 export GTK_CONFIG="/mingw/bin/pkg-config gtk+-1.3-win32-production"

before you run configure. Also, I've found that pkg-config returns strange version numbers, so configure thinks it has the wrong version of gtk. I configure with --disable-gtktest to turn off the package version check. Finally, you need to use the -mms-bitfields flag if you are using the pre-built windows binaries. I'm not sure if this is necessary for cygwin.

 export GTK_CONFIG="/mingw/bin/pkg-config gtk+-1.3-win32-production"
 CFLAGS="-mms-bitfields" ./configure --disable-gtktest

I'd recommend using msys/mingw rather than cygwin, if you possibly can. msys/mingw will make a binary which can be run on plain windows machines. If you use cygwin, then your users will have to install cygwin too.

There's a gtk-win mailing list which you might find helpful.

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/

Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:04, U Fleku wrote:
>
> > It's not a gtk-2.0 program, the compilation requires me just
> > gtk-config. Luckily gtk was ported to cygwin (there is even two
> > version). Now I only need this file.
>
>
> See http://www.gimp.org/win32.  The complete gtk 1.3 (1.2) and 2.x
> branches with everything you need to build within mingw32 or cygwin are
> there.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> > 'bye.
> >        ----- Original Message ----- 
> >        From: Michael Hill
> >        To: U Fleku
> >        Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> >        Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:54 PM
> >        Subject: Re: gtk-config needed
> >        
> >        gtk-config only existed for GTK-1.2.  If it's a GTK-2.0
> >        program you should be using `pkg-config gtk-2.0 --cflags
> >        --libs`.  Gargnome has a prepackaged GTK-2.0 installer that
> >        uses the mingw runtime if you want to give that a try.  I
> >        don't believe GTK has been ported straight to Cygwin, though I
> >        could be wrong.
> >        
> >        
> >        HTH,
> >        
> >        Michael
> >            
> >        On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 16:32, U Fleku wrote: 
> >        > Hi all,
> >        > excuse me if I resend the same post, but I really need a
> >        > gtk-config file. Please someone can send me this file? I
> >        > need it for compile a linux program on Cygwin, a linux
> >        > emulator for win32.
> >        > 'Bye