i guess 23 is the last character position on the 4th line in Viewer.h. not sure though regards, jay On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 11:46 +0100, Mike Reed wrote: > Hi, > pretty simple question but I can't find the answer anywhere in the GCC > documentation or on the web/mailing lists. I am getting an error from > the compiler like this: > > $ g++ -c -o Viewer.o Viewer.cpp > In file included from Viewer.cpp:1: > Viewer.h:4:23: error: gtkmm/box.h: No such file or directory > > I can see from the source that the #include occurs on line 4 of Viewer.h > but what is the 23? I only seem to get this second number on "No such > file or directory" messages. In the GCC documentation it only mentions > filename and line number being given, no mention of a possible second > number or what it is. > > Just curious. > > Thanks, > Mike. >