Re: [libxml++] glibconfig.h and glibmmconfig.h missing

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:21 +0000, François Thimon wrote:
> Hi all.
> I've installed libxml++ 2.xxx on my Debian Etch and it all worked fine. 
> However, when I tried to compile a little test program, it didn't compile 
> because glibconfig.h and glibmmconfig.h were both missing.

They are in, for instance, 
/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include/
because they are platform-dependent.

> As you certainly already know, they are included through glib and glibmm to 
> let me use Glib::ustring.
> 
> I looked in some of the directories where the files could have been 
> installed but I couldn't find them.
> What is weird with this is that these two files is:
> - first, they haven't been installed with glib and glibmm packages whereas 
> they are mandatory for the compilation
> - then, they come from different packages, but have similar names and cause 
> exactly the same problem when compiling, so maybe I just misunderstood 
> something
> 
> I tried to use pkg-config to get the right include paths for G++ but it 
> doesn't work because pkg-config tells me that I don't have glib-config 
> program.

Could you please show us your pkg-config path and the exact error
message?

What prefix did you use when building libxml++.

I strongly recommend that you use your Linux distribution's packages if
possible.

> Now here is my question : does someone know whether I really lack something 
> or if there is something else to do (or somewhere else to look for the 
> needed headers) in order not to get compiler errors because of glibconfig.g 
> and glibmmconfig.h?
> Thanks to all in advance for your help!! Cheers!
> Francois
> 
> PS. I saw on libxml++ site that there was a HAVE_CONFIG_H macro and a 
> config.h file to use. I can't test this right now because I'm not at home, 
> but do you think this might help me in some way?

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