On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:28, Paulo Ricardo Batista Mesquita wrote: > Hi dears, > > I am a newbie using GTK+. > > I installed the sources, and now I am trying to write a simple application. > I included the line > > #include <gtk\gtk.h> > > and I tried to compile this using > > gcc -g -s testeGTK.c -o testeGTK 'pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0'. http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-compiling.html The simplest way to compile a program is to use the "backticks" feature of the shell. If you enclose a command in backticks (not single quotes), then its output will be substituted into the command line before execution. So to compile a GTK+ Hello, World, you would type the following: $ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` hello.c -o Note: "not single quotes" Regards, Owen