Re: Beginner ORBit/C problems

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Chris Backas wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> I am trying to learn to use ORBit/Goad from C, I apologize if this is
> not quite the right forum for a more GNOME/ORBit related question (if
> not, please direct me to it)  I'm new at GNOME, ORBit/CORBA, and Linux
> programming in general, so please don't be too critical ;)
> 
> I wrote  a very simple program just to test my understanding of some of
> the simpler Gnorba functions - while my program compiles, it will not
> link, and I've spent quite  a few hours adding -l directives, trying to
> guess exactly what I have to link against.  So far I've got this command
> line:
> g++ -o goadtest goadtest.cpp -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/lib/gnome-libs/include -L/usr/lib -lORBit -lIIOP -lORBitutil
> -lglib -lm -lgnorba -lgnomesupport -lgdk -lgtk -lgnorbagtk -lgnome -lesd
> -ldb -lgnomeui -lart_lgpl -lpopt
> 
> It seems to me that that's a heck of a lot of libraries to link against,
> so I must be missing something.

g++ -o goadtest goadtest.cpp `gnome-config --cflags --libs gnorba gnomeui`

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