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GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Hello,

i'm new at GTK programming.
I wanted to compile a simple Programm under Windows XP.

i have installed MSYS and MinGW. And added to the PATH:

When i started to compile it with:

Vadi · GTK+ Geek Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 68

You need to add

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1	`pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`

To the compile line. Give that a try.

GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

hi Vadi,

thank you for your help !!!
i tried your advice and added it to the comand line, but i get other errors...

gcc: `pkg-config: No such file or directory
gcc: gtk+-2.0: No such file or directory
cc1: Fehler: nicht erkannte Kommandozeilenoption >>-fcflags<<
cc1: Fehler: nicht erkannte Kommandozeilenoption >>-flibs<<

... he did not recognize this comand line options ...
do you have any idea ...

caracal · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Umm do you have pkg-config installed?

dreblen · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject:

on windows, you can't do

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1	`pkg-config etc.`

unless you're using cygwin or msys because the windows shell (cmd) doesn't support backtick syntax.
also, all you need to add to %PATH% is C:\GTK\bin.

what I do (since msys doesn't work on vista x64) is to type

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1 2	pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > cflags.txt pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 > ldflags.txt

then copy the contents of cflags.txt into a new environment variable called GTK_CFLAGS
and copy the contents of ldflags.txt into a new environment variabl called GTK_LDFLAGS,
then I make a new var called GTK_COMPILE which has this in it:

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1	%GTK_CFLAGS% %GTK_LDFLAGS%

then when I want to compile a gtk program, I can type:

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1	gcc file.c -o file %GTK_COMPILE%

GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

@caracal: no i haven't :? How can i install it ?

@dreblen: when i write the first comand line

dreblen · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject:

by that output, it would seem that you do have pkg-config installed, and it's telling you it can't find the proper files,
so you need to make a new environment variable called PKG_CONFIG_PATH and set it to

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1	C:\GTK\lib\pkgconfig

I don't know which win32-installer you're talking about (there's a bunch), but I use this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gladewin32
then select gtk+-win32-devel

GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Hi,

i added the

dreblen · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject:

does the C:\GTK\lib\pkgconfig directory have the .pc files that it says it can't find?

also, you need to restart the command prompt after editing environment variables, so maybe it just hasn't updated yet?

(oh, and you should only need the gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2 one)

GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

hi dreblen,

i have reinstalled the package.

and now i get another message ...

Package pixman-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'pixman-1.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH enviroment variable
Package 'pixman-1', required by 'cairo', not found....

Vadi · GTK+ Geek Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 68

Heh, I remember getting the same error. I think I either fakes the .pc using one of the existing ones, or removed pixman from the requirements. I don't remember which.

GTKNoob2008 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Hi Vadi,

i have faked the .pc file and i than i get the two .txt files.

but after i added all to the enviroment and started a new cmd prompt and wanted to compile a testfile, he brings the same errors like before, but with a little difference that there is a new one in the first line.

Vadi · GTK+ Geek Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 68

Well it will at some point, I got it working... if you'd like, I can share my dev-cpp folder with you which has all of the gtk and glib stuffed into it that somehow works now.

jsiebert · Joined: 16 Jul 2008 Posts: 1

Good Morning everyone,

I'm also new to GTK+ on Windows. For the last few days I was also trying to get a simple GTK program running on Windows.
I got it working by using CMake as build-tool (actually a meta-build-tool). CMake generates Makefiles from very simple CMake-Makefiles (CMakeLists.txt). One can generate Makefiles for GNU/GCC based build environments (e.g. MinGW) as well as Visual Studio Project files.
My build environment is installed as follows:

- Install MinGW in C:\MinGW and add C:\MinGW\bin to PATH
- Install the GTK+ All-In-One bundle to C:\GTK and add C:\GTK\bin to PATH
- Install CMake (using the windows installer provied by them)

Next step is to write a CMakeLists.txt file for your project. There is an excellent documentation at the website of cmake but I can also provied a small example project if necessary.

Best regards,

Jens