Re: Issue with linking.

[Tadej Borovšak <tadeboro gmail com>]

Hi!

Dne 09.06.2014 (pon) ob 19:26 -0500 je Bill Brown napisal(a):
> Hello Gtk users / devs:
>
>
> I've got a program that compiles against gtk3 but fails to link.  The
> error I get is. 
>
>
> [ERROR] /usr/bin/ld: /home/bill//container.o: undefined reference to
> symbol 'gtk_window_get_default_widget'
> [ERROR] /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from
> command line

How are you compiling your program? This error is usually caused by
listing libraries before yur objects on linker command line.

Proper way of compiling GTK+ applications would be something like this:

  gcc -o app obj1.o obj2.o $(pkg-config --libs gtk-3.0)

Cheers,
Tadej

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