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Compiling Hello, World

GTK+ comes with a shell script called gtk-config; this script is created when GTK+ is built. Its purpose is to report the compiler flags you need to compile GTK+ programs. The following shell session demonstrates its features:


$ gtk-config --version
1.2.0
$ gtk-config --prefix
/home/hp/local
$ gtk-config --exec-prefix
/home/hp/local
$ gtk-config --libs       
-L/home/hp/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm
$ gtk-config --libs gthread
-L/home/hp/local/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lgthread -lglib -lpthread -ldl -lXext -lX11 -lm
$ gtk-config --cflags 
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/home/hp/local/lib/glib/include -I/home/hp/local/include
$ 

If you're using a Bourne shell variant, such as bash, you can use backticks (not single quotes!) to execute gtk-config and substitute its output. A simple Makefile for compiling Hello, World might look like this:


CC=gcc

all: hello.c
        $(CC) `gtk-config --libs` `gtk-config --cflags` -o hello hello.c

clean:
        /bin/rm -f *.o *~

Of course, this Makefile is far too simple for real-world applications; the chapter called Creating Your Source Tree describes how to set up a more realistic build using automake and autoconf.

gtk-config allows you to locate GTK+ on the user's system, instead of hard-coding a location in your Makefile. It also comes in handy if you have two versions of GTK+ on your own system; if you install them each in a dedicated directory tree, you can choose one or the other by placing the correct gtk-config in your shell's search path.

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