RE: Trouble getting pkg-config to work in Windows

["Stewart Weiss" <stewart weiss acm org>]



Yesudeep:

 

Thank you.

Using the installers from the installation video to which you sent a link below , I was successful in creating a working GTK+

environment. So far, I have been able to compile successfully in MSys shells,  Windows command line,

and within Dev-C++.  pkg-config finally works.  The major difference between what did not work and

what did work, was that before I was downloading the zip files from the Gimp download site,

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html

and unzipping them into the MinGW directory.

 

I want to note that I was successful in creating a working GTK+ environment under Cygwin by installing

GTK and then building pkg-config from source, from within a Cygwin shell, but it ONLY worked in Cygwin,

rather limiting.

 

The next steps are to figure out how to create projects from withing Dev-C++ that do not create console

windows in addition to the window I create. I know I can use Glade to do this, but I do not want to work in

a GUI -- I prefer to write code.

 

One last note -- I could not view the video in any browser (plugins failed), nor in any application on my Windows

machine (Nero, Realplayer, WinDVD, WMP). I had to view it in my Linux video player. 

 

Again, Thanks.

Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: Yesudeep [mailto:yesudeep gmail com]
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:42 AM
To: Stewart Weiss
Cc: gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Trouble getting pkg-config to work in Windows

Greetings,

On 6/9/07, Stewart Weiss <stewart weiss acm org> wrote:

Thanks for the reply, but the problem is more complex than this. Yesudeep's two replies

can be combined and summarized as follows:

1. Try installing using the installers from http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net

2. Make sure that the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH is properly set by editing the

    bash configuration files and/or system environment variables.

3. Use the installation instructions from http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GladeGuide

    ( written by Chris Lale, on how to use Glade with Win32)

<snip>

I seem to agree with the old Chinese proverb: "A picture is worth a thousand words".
I'd like to add a little more to it though: "A movie is worth a million."
Here's a screen-cast demonstrating installing GTK+ on Windows:

http://www.jamesbooker.co.uk/~jburd/gtk/install/win32/

Note:  I do not have Cygwin installed on my machine, and when I did
I avoided adding Cygwin paths/executables to my PATH environment variable. 
That dramatically reduced the problems I was facing.  The UNIX tools you see
me using are from the GNUWin32 project.

If installing this way does not solve your problem, do let us know.

Regards,
Yesudeep.
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