Re: Gtkmm-Win32 and Dev-Cpp

[Cedric Gustin <cedric gustin gmail com>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Jamiil Abduqadir <jalqadir gmail com> wrote:
>> I have recently installed Gtkmm-2.4 on my MS-Windows XP box. Following
>> the installations instructions given in the documentation for Dev-Cpp,
>> I installed it at the 'C:\Dev-Cpp' subdirectory.
>> Now, when I type 'pkg-config --cflags gtkmm-2.4' at the prompt I get a
>> message saying:
>> Pakage gtkmm-2.4 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps
>> you should add the directory containing  the file to the
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable..."
>> I did as suggested by the message, however, I now get the same message
>> about 'libpng12'; only this time I could not find the file in my
>> sistem.
>> Can anyone help?!!
>>
>> TIA
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> 
> By chance, I was just setting up gtkmm on my windows computer at work
> the other day.  I had the same issue.  I looked in my
> C:\GTK\lib\pkgconfig directory and found libpng13.pc and libpng.pc, so
> I just edited the cairo.pc file and changed the Requires.private line
> to specify libpng instead of libpng12 (if you open the libpng.pc file
> you see that it's named libpng12 internally).  I'm not sure why
> there's a mismatch here (a windows packaging issue??) but it's pretty
> easy to fix manually.

This is a known problem with the gladewin32 GTK+ 2.8 installer. Jonathan
  suggested the right fix. Alternatively, you can upgrade to GTK+ 2.10
(http://gladewin32.sf.net) and gtkmm 2.10 (installer available from
http://wwww.gustin.be).

Cedric